An edition of The Complete Essays of Mark Twain (1963)

The Complete Essays of Mark Twain

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An edition of The Complete Essays of Mark Twain (1963)

The Complete Essays of Mark Twain

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Two Mark Twain Editorials -- Disgraceful persecution of a boy -- License of the press -- The Sandwich Islands -- A memorable midnight experience -- English as she is taught -- Aix, the paradise of the rheumatics -- At the shrine of St. Wagner -- Mental telegraphy -- The German Chicago -- Marienbad, a health factory -- Switzerland, the cradle of liberty -- In defense of Harriet Shelley -- How to tell a story -- Mental telegraphy again -- What Paul Bourget thinks of us -- A little note to M. Paul Bourget -- Queen Victoria's jubilee --- About play-acting -- Stirring times in Austria -- Concerning the Jews -- Diplomatic pay and clothes -- My debut as a literary person -- To the person sitting in darkness -- To my missionary critics -- Thomas Brackett Reed -- Saint Joan of Arc -- The first writing-machines -- A helpless situation -- A humane word from Satan -- A monument to Adam -- What is man?-- William Dean Howells -- Is Shakespeare dead? -- Marjorie Fleming, the wonder child -- The new planet -- The old-fashioned printer -- Seventieth birthday -- Taxes and Morals -- The turning-point of my life -- The death of Jean -- How to make history dates stick -- A scrap of curious history -- As concerns interpreting the deity -- The bee -- Concerning tobacco -- The memorable assassination -- A simplified alphabet -- Taming the bicycle -- Adam's soliloquy -- Advice to youth -- As regards Patriotism -- Bible teaching and religious practice -- The Cholera epidemic in Hamburg -- Consistency -- Corn-prone opinions -- The dervish and the offensive stranger -- Dr. Loeb's incredible discovery -- Down the Rhone -- Dueling -- Eve speaks -- The finished book -- Foreign critics -- Instructing the soldier -- Letters to Satan -- The lost Napolean -- On speech-making reform -- Samuel Erasmus Moffett -- Skeleton plan of a proposed casting vote party -- Sold to Satan -- Some national stupidities -- The temperance crusade and woman's rights -- That day in Eden -- The United States of Lyncherdom -- The war prayer -- A word of encouragement for our blushing exiles -- Letter from the recording angel

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Da Capo Press
Language
English
Pages
744

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Cover of: The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
October 25, 2000, Da Capo Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Complete Essays of Mark Twain
Complete Essays of Mark Twain
September 4, 1985, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: Complete Essays of Mark Twain
Complete Essays of Mark Twain
September 1985, DoubleDay
Hardcover - Reissue edition
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain
The complete essays of Mark Twain
1963, Doubleday
- [1st edition]
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain [pseud.]
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain now collected for the first time
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain [pseud.]
The complete essays of Mark Twain [pseud.]
1963, Doubleday
in English - [1st ed.] Now collected for the first time, edited and with an introd. by Charles Neider. Drawings by Mark Twain. [1st ed.]
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain
The complete essays of Mark Twain
1963, Doubleday
- [1st ed.]
Cover of: The complete essays of Mark Twain
The complete essays of Mark Twain
Publisher unknown
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"Being a stranger, it would be immodest and unbecoming in me to suddenly and violently assume the associate editorship of the Buffalo Express without a single explanatory word of comfort or encouragement to the unoffending patrons of the paper, who are about to be exposed to constant attacks of my wisdom and learning."

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
744
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches
Weight
2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9558315M
ISBN 10
0306809575
ISBN 13
9780306809576
Library Thing
295778
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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38750

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