TY - BOOK ID - 77926148 TI - Martin Faber AU - Simms, William Gilmore AU - Guilds, John Caldwell PY - 2005 SN - 1610752600 9781610752602 1557288100 9781557288103 PB - Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press DB - UniCat KW - Authors, American KW - Bookmakers (Gambling) KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Bookies KW - Gambling KW - Family relationships KW - Employees KW - Abbott, Alfred Bemont. KW - Abbott, Shirley KW - Tomkievicz, Shirley Abbott KW - Abbott, Hat KW - Childhood and youth. KW - Criminals KW - Murderers KW - Revenge UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77926148 AB - William Gilmore Simms's (1806-1870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms's career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg's Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson." Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces ER -