Letters From The Earth

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Publisher : Youcanprint
ISBN 13 : 8892658379
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Letters From The Earth written by Mark Twain and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.

The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350745
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell written by Harold K. Bush and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Mark Twain's Letters

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Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849674630
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters written by Mark Twain and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1929 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his other writings, Mark Twain's letters attest that he was not the greatest of all humorists, but that he did have an amazing gift of depicting the average American, and what is more, that he could do it sympathetically and from the inside of the house, not ironically through the window as Thackeray depicted the absurdities of his contemporaries. The letters show, also, what a storybook life he led. Born obscurely in a western town without advantages, half-educated as a typesetter for a country newspaper, a runaway, a soldier "riding a small yellow mule" to the aid of the Confederacy, a runaway again, a mining prospector familiar with mountain gambling-saloons, a news reporter, he at last acquired some fame with his "Jumping Frog." His reputation travelled east and he became a lecturer and special correspondent. Then, of a sudden, he made himself conspicuous to the entire country with his "Innocents Abroad." He became a mighty traveller. He was feasted by kings, decorated by universities, and honored everywhere. From Hartford all around the earth and back, he was a leading citizen of the world. The ingenious authors of the most shocking fiction could not invent plots swifter or more romantic. This editions contains the letters from the year 1853 all through 1910.

Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824802882
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1975-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in Twain's efforts when he finally did put pen to paper.

Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 letters written as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, a newspaper.

Mark Twain's Letters

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Mark Twain

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261348
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Dear Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Complete Letters of Mark Twain

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 855 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Letters of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520917293
Total Pages : 840 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Mark Twain's Letters

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627938184
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters written by Mark Twain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mark Twain's Letters Volume 1" includes the correspondences of Mark Twain from 1853-1866.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520906063
Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Mark Twain's letters, arranged with comment

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain's letters, arranged with comment written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain And The South

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148782
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520036697
Total Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2 written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dear Mark Twain

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520955161
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Dear Mark Twain written by R. Kent Rasmussen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Letters of Mark Twain

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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 1 by Mark Twain Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 1 give us the background to his works and show Twain to us as a complex personality with very pronounced weaknesses and strengths: his deep and constant love for his wife Livy, his great capacity for true and loyal friendship, his impetuosity, his restlessness, his extravagance, his occasional childishness, his impatience, moodiness, vanity, generosity, tolerance, honesty, enthusiasm. Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value quite aside from literature, in that it reflects in some degree at least the soul of the writer. The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammelled by literary conventions. On his first trip to England to gather material for a book and cement relations with his newly authorized English publishers, Samuel Clemens was astounded to find himself hailed everywhere as a literary lion. America's premier humorist had begun his long tenure as an international celebrity. Meanwhile, he was coming into his full power at home. The Innocents Abroad continued to produce impressive royalties and his new book, Roughing It, was enjoying great popularity. In newspaper columns he appeared regularly as public advocate and conscience, speaking on issues as disparate as safety at sea and political corruption. Clemens's personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria. Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. The letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy.

The Letters of Mark Twain

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Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595403247
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - - An editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal, early in 1901, said: "A remarkable transformation, or rather a development, has taken place in Mark Twain. The genial humorist of the earlier day is now a reformer of the vigorous kind, a sort of knight errant who does not hesitate to break a lance with either Church or State if he thinks them interposing on that broad highway over which he believes not a part but the whole of mankind has the privilege of passing in the onward march of the ages." Mark Twain had begun "breaking the lance" very soon after his return from Europe. He did not believe that he could reform the world, but at least he need not withhold his protest against those things which stirred his wrath. He began by causing the arrest of a cabman who had not only overcharged but insulted him; he continued by writing openly against the American policy in the Philippines, the missionary propaganda which had resulted in the Chinese uprising and massacre, and against Tammany politics. Not all of his efforts were in the line of reform; he had become a sort of general spokesman which the public flocked to hear, whatever the subject. On the occasion of a Lincoln Birthday service at Carnegie Hall he was chosen to preside, and he was obliged to attend more dinners than were good for his health. His letters of this period were mainly written to his old friend Twichell, in Hartford. Howells, who lived in New York, he saw with considerable frequency.