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Collected Tales Sketches Speeches Essays 1891 1910
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Celebrities |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028416678 |
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A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1148 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020850403 |
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Mark Twain Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays Vol 1 1852 1890 LOA 60
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 1390 |
Release | : 1992-10-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781598533392 |
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The most comprehensive Mark Twain collection—over 150 short stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims from America’s greatest humorist. 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.
Mark Twain Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays Vol 1 1852 1890 LOA 60
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Library of America Mark Twain |
Total Pages | : 1128 |
Release | : 1992-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028416314 |
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Offers a chronological collection of Twain's shorter writings.
Mark Twain Collected Tales Sketches Speeches and Essays Vol 2 1891 1910 LOA 61
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Library of America Mark Twain |
Total Pages | : 1094 |
Release | : 1992-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020850551 |
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Collected stories, sketches, speeches & essays.
The Reverend Mark Twain
Author | : Joe B. Fulton |
Publsiher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814210246 |
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"I was made in His image," Mark Twain once said, "but have never been mistaken for Him." God may have made Mark Twain in His image, but Twain frequently remade himself by adopting divine personae as part of his literary burlesque. Readers were delighted, rather than fooled, when Twain adopted the image of religious vocation throughout his writing career: Theologian, Missionary, Priest, Preacher, Prophet, Saint, Brother Twain, Holy Samuel, the Bishop of New Jersey, and of course, the Reverend Mark Twain. Joe B. Fulton has not written a study of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's religious beliefs, but rather one about Twain's use of theological form and content in a number of his works-some well-known, others not so widely read. Twain adopted such religious personae to burlesque the religious literary genres associated with those vocations. He wrote catechisms, prophecies, psalms, and creeds, all in the theological tradition, but with a comic twist. Twain even wrote a burlesque life of Christ that has the son of God sporting blue jeans and cowboy boots. With his distinctive comic genius, Twain entered the religious dialogue of his time, employing the genres of belief as his vehicle for criticizing church and society. Twain's burlesques of religious form and content reveal a writer fully engaged with the religious ferment of his day. Works like The Innocents Abroad, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Roughing It, and What Is Man? are the productions of a writer skilled at adopting and adapting established literary and religious forms for his own purposes. Twain is sometimes viewed as a haphazard writer, but in The Reverend Mark Twain, Fulton demonstrates how carefully Twain studied established literary and theological genres to entertain-and criticize-his society. Book jacket.
Mark Twain Under Fire
Author | : Joe B. Fulton |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781640140349 |
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Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire since the advent of his career.
Handbook of the American Short Story
Author | : Erik Redling,Oliver Scheiding |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110587647 |
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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.