Down the River: Or Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello

This delightful divertissement is a lampoon of dueling culture set in southeastern Alabama

Summary

Written by a cousin of the better known humorist Johnson Jones Hooper, this work is a lampoon of dueling culture set in south eastern Alabama. The main character is a figure familiar in outline to readers of John Gorman Barr, J J Hooper, Joseph G Baldwin, and other practitioners of what is known as the humor of the Old Southwest.

Product details

• Authors: George W. Hooper
• Assisted by: H. L. Stephens (Illustration)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9780817354121
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5412-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics Series; Library of Alabama Classics; Library Alabama Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous