New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1867). Hardcover first edition - The only book-length work by Harris, who has been called "the most original and gifted of the antebellum humorists" and whose work influenced authors such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner,and Flannery O'Connor. This is a collection of twenty-four Sut Lovingood tales, sixteen of which had been published in various newspapers prior to the war. Sut Lovingood, is a caricature of a stereotypical farmer of rural Southern Appalachia. Knoxville historian Jack Neely describes Sut as "Huck Finn on amphetamines, a manic, perverse child of some backwoods holler where Idiocy and Genius fuse into one." Sut considers himself (somewhat proudly) to be a "durnder fool" than anyone, save his own…
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1867). Hardcover first edition - The only book-length work by Harris, who has been called "the most original and gifted of the antebellum humorists" and whose work influenced authors such as Mark Twain, William Faulkner,and Flannery O'Connor. This is a collection of twenty-four Sut Lovingood tales, sixteen of which had been published in various newspapers prior to the war. Sut Lovingood, is a caricature of a stereotypical farmer of rural Southern Appalachia. Knoxville historian Jack Neely describes Sut as "Huck Finn on amphetamines, a manic, perverse child of some backwoods holler where Idiocy and Genius fuse into one." Sut considers himself (somewhat proudly) to be a "durnder fool" than anyone, save his own father. (wikipedia) xv , 299 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates plus 12 pp of publisher's ads. Bookplate on front pastedown of Myra Cohn Livingston (1926- 1996) award-winning American poet and author of children's books.
SUT LOVINGOOD: Yarns spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." Warped and Wove for Public Wear.
