University of South Carolina Press, 1996

This new collection of a dozen tales by the Old South’s most famous writer, South Carolina’s William Gilmore Simms, seeks to broaden Simm’s modern audience by making available a selection of his short fiction in an attractive format. Editor Mary Ann Wimsatt has provided a useful chronology of Simms’s life and work and an introduction that places both in historical and critical context. The tales are not annotated, but Simms’s skill as a storyteller compensates for unfamiliar terms and allusions.