Dear Mark Twain

Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520955165

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Dear Mark Twain by R. Kent Rasmussen Pdf

A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world—children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates of mental institutions, con artists, and even a former president. It is a unique and groundbreaking book—the first published collection of reader letters to any writer of Mark Twain's time. Its contents afford a rare and exhilarating glimpse into the sensibilities of nineteenth-century people while revealing the impact Samuel L. Clemens had on his readers. Clemens’s own and often startling comments and replies are also included. R. Kent Rasmussen’s extensive research provides fascinating profiles of the correspondents, whose personal stories are often as interesting as their letters. Ranging from gushing fan appreciations and requests for help and advice to suggestions for writing projects and stinging criticisms, the letters are filled with perceptive insights, pathos, and unintentional but often riotous humor. Many are deeply moving, more than a few are hilarious, some may be shocking, but none are dull.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520261341

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Dear Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mark Twain's Letters to his Publishers 1867-1894 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788027236800

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The Complete Letters by Mark Twain Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Complete Letters" of Mark Twain. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. Table of Contents: Volume I — Letters 1853-1866 Volume II — Letters 1867-1875 Volume III — Letters 1876-1885 Volume IV — Letters 1886-1900 Volume V — Letters 1901-1906 Volume VI — Letters 1907-1910 Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 159540323X

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The Letters of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When Clemens had been platforming with Cable and returned to Hartford for his Christmas vacation, the Warner and Clemens families had joined in preparing for him a surprise performance of The Prince and the Pauper. The Clemens household was always given to theatricals, and it was about this time that scenery and a stage were prepared - mainly by the sculptor Gerhardt - for these home performances, after which productions of The Prince and the Pauper were given with considerable regularity to audiences consisting of parents and invited friends. The subject is a fascinating one, but it has been dwelt upon elsewhere. - [In Mark Twain: A Biography, chaps. cliff and clx.] - We get a glimpse of one of these occasions as well as of Mark Twain's financial progress in the next brief note. MY DEAR HOWELLS, - The date set for the Prince and Pauper play is ten days hence - Jan. 13. I hope you and Pilla can take a train that arrives here during the day; the one that leaves Boston toward the end of the afternoon would be a trifle late; the performance would have already begun when you reached the house.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627938310

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Mark Twain's Letters by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters Volume 2" includes the correspondences of Mark Twain from 1673-1875.

Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens,Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520005600

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Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894 by Samuel Langhorne Clemens,Mark Twain Pdf

290 letters, not previously published, charting the matters concerning publication of the author's books from 1867 through 1894.

Author : Harold K. Bush,Steve Courtney,Peter Messent
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820350745

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The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell by Harold K. Bush,Steve Courtney,Peter Messent Pdf

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut—rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had “got up to go at 9.30 PM, & never sat down again—but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out—& I was willing—& so I only left at 11.” This conversation continued, in various forms, for forty-two years—in both men’s houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men—one an inimitable American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed both narrative skill and wit—has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence; of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in his journals as the “long full feast of talk” with his friend, whom he would always call “Mark.”

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520203600

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4 by Mark Twain Pdf

"You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we two have been right together in the same house half the time for a year & a half, & yet have never had a cross word, or a lover's 'tiff,' or a pouting spell, or a misunderstanding, or the faintest shadow of a jealous suspicion. Now isn't that absolutely wonderful? Could I have had such an experience with any other girl on earth? I am perfectly certain I could not. . . . We are to be married on Feb. 2d." So begins Volume 4 of the letters, with Samuel Clemens anticipating his wedding to Olivia L. Langdon. The 338 letters in this volume document the first two years of a loving marriage that would last more than thirty years. They recount, in Clemens's own inimitable voice, a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife. At the beginning of 1870, fresh from the success of The Innocents Abroad, Clemens is on "the long agony" of a lecture tour and planning to settle in Buffalo as editor of the Express. By the end of 1871, he has moved to Hartford and is again on tour, anticipating the publication of Roughing It and the birth of his second child. The intervening letters show Clemens bursting with literary ideas, business schemes, and inventions, and they show him erupting with frustration, anger, and grief, but more often with dazzling humor and surprising self-revelation. In addition to Roughing It, Clemens wrote some enduringly popular short pieces during this period, but he saved some of his best writing for private letters, many of which are published here for the first time.

Author : Mark Twain,Edgar Marquess Branch,Michael B. Frank,Kenneth M. Sanderson,Harriet E. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520036697

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2 by Mark Twain,Edgar Marquess Branch,Michael B. Frank,Kenneth M. Sanderson,Harriet E. Smith Pdf

Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547782681

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The Complete Letters of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Letters of Mark Twain" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. Table of Contents: Volume I — Letters 1853-1866 Volume II — Letters 1867-1875 Volume III — Letters 1876-1885 Volume IV — Letters 1886-1900 Volume V — Letters 1901-1906 Volume VI — Letters 1907-1910 Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052090608X

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3 by Mark Twain Pdf

"Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having." These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, the book that would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of Mark Twain's Letters captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031222758

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Mark Twain's Letters to Mary by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Leland Krauth
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820325406

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Mark Twain & Company by Leland Krauth Pdf

In this comparison of Mark Twain with six of his literary contemporaries, Leland Krauth looks anew at the writer's multifaceted creativity. Twain, a highly lettered man immersed in the literary culture of his time, viewed himself as working within a community of writers. He likened himself to a guild member whose work was the crafted product of a common trade--and sometimes made with borrowed materials. Yet there have been few studies of Twain in relation to his fellow guild members. In Mark Twain & Company, Krauth examines some creative "sparks and smolderings" ignited by Twain's contact with certain writers, all of whom were published, read, and criticized on both sides of the Atlantic: the Americans Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, and Harriet Beecher Stowe and the British writers Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. Each chapter explores the nature of Twain's personal relationship with a writer as well as the literary themes and modes they shared. Krauth looks at the sentimentality of Harte and Twain and its influence on their protest fiction; the humor and social criticism of Twain and Howells; the use of the Gothic by Twain and Stowe to explore racial issues; the role of Victorian Sage assumed by Arnold and Twain to critique civilization; the exploitation of adventure fiction by Twain and Stevenson to reveal conceptions of masculinity; and the use of the picaresque in Kipling and Twain to support or subvert imperialism. Mark Twain & Company casts new light on some of the most enduring writers in English. At the same time it refreshes the debate over the transatlantic nature of Victorianism with new insights about nineteenth-century morality, conventionality, race, corporeality, imperialism, manhood, and individual identity.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547559382

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Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885) by Mark Twain Pdf

"Mark Twain's Letters (1876-1885)" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.