Mark Twain
Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890 (LOA #60)
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The most comprehensive collection of stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist, Mark Twain Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, this special Library of America volume shows with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career.The nearly two hundred separate items in this volume cover Twain's writings from the years 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic begin…
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The most comprehensive collection of stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist, Mark Twain Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, this special Library of America volume shows with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career.The nearly two hundred separate items in this volume cover Twain's writings from the years 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, and the feverish corruption, avarice, and ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, and the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it.Among the stories included here are Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, which won him instant fame when published in 1865, Cannibalism in the Cars, The Invalid's Story, and the charming A Cat's Tale, written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous and successful speeches and toasts, such as Woman - God Bless Her, The Babies, and Advice to Youth. Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture and banquet circuit, as did his controversial Whittier Birthday Speech, which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Weitere Autoren: Budd, Louis J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-339-2
- EAN: 9781598533392
- Produktnummer: 17567387
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 1120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'588 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 4
Über den Autor
Louis J. Budd, volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Duke University, a literary cirtic, and a leading Mark Twain scholar. He is the author of Mark Twain: Social Philosopher and Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality, as well as the former managing editor of the American Literature journal. He lived in Patagonia, Arizona and passed away in 2010 at the age of 89.
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