| Description |
xli, 939 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's library |
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Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 375.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Chapters from my autobiography -- Letters -- Essays and speeches. Blabbing government serets! ; Letter from Carson City ; All about the fashions ; How to cure a cold ; Miss Clapp's school ; Doings in Nevada ; Those blasted children ; Whereas ; Answers to correspondents ; Advice for good little boys ; Advice for good little girls ; "Mark Twain" on the launch of the steamer "Capital" ; A new biography of Washington ; Female suffrage ; My late senatorial secretaryship ; The new crime ; Wit-inspirations of the "Two-year-olds" ; The late Benjamin Franklin ; A memory ; The noble red man ; The approaching epidemic ; Map of Paris ; One of mankind's bores ; About Barbers ; License of the press ; Fourth of July speech in London ; The ladies ; The Temperance insurrection ; Petition concerning copyright ; A literary nightmare ; The oldest inhabitant - the weather of New England ; Farewell banquest for Bayard Taylor ; The babies. As they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities ; A telephonic conversation ; Reply to a Boston girl ; Dinner speech in Montreal ; Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims ; Advice to youth ; On the decay of the art of lying ; Concerning the American language ; Woman - God bless her ; On Adam ; The character of man ; On speech-making reform ; The private history of a campaign that failed ; The new dynasty ; Our children ; Dinne speech: General Grant's grammar ; Consistency ; American authors and British pirates ; Yale College speech ; To Walt Whitman ; On foreign critics ; Reply to the editor of "The Art of Authorship" ; Aix-les-bains ; Mental telegraphy ; The cradle of Liberty ; Private history of the "Jumping Frog" story ; Fenimore Cooper's literary offences ; How to tell a story ; In memoriam ; A word of encouragement for our blushing exiles ; My platonic sweetheart ; Diplomatic pay and clothers ; Concerning the Jews ; My boyhook dreams ; Introducing Winston S. Churchill ; To the person sitting in darkness ; Battle Hymn of the Republic (brought down to date) ; To my missionary critics ; The United States of lyncherdom ; Why not abolish it? ;|"Was the world made for man?" ; Italian without a master ; Saint Joan of Arc ; Concerning copyright ; The czar's soliloquy ; William Dean Howells ; Our guest ; Is Shakespeare dead? ;|"The turning point of my life". |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Autobiography.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Essays.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Speeches.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Correspondence.
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Hochschild, Adam, author of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781101907702 |
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1101907703 |
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