The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910volume 3, Scharnhorst Gary

Автор: Twain Mark
Название: Autobiography of Mark Twain
ISBN: 1513282077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781513282077
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by an icon of American literature. Originally serialized in the North American Review, the United States' oldest literary magazine, the Autobiography of Mark Twain has gone through countless editions in the century after Twain's death, and is considered a masterpiece of literary nonfiction.

"I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published [...] because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel." Focusing on the small events, unremarkable encounters, and marginalia which make a life both common and particular, Mark Twain envisions a model of autobiography capable of dispelling the myth of the writer as a man of fortune and mysterious talent. Capturing episodes from his youth and the early stages of his writing career, reflecting on the importance of his wife Olivia and daughter Susy, and describing the influence of labor on his philosophy of life, Twain invites his reader to recognize him not just as Samuel Clemens, his birth name, but as a man who lived and worked and triumphed and suffered alongside others, as a man whose success was a testament to the power of community. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography of Mark Twain is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Автор: Harold Orel
Название: The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 1912–1928
ISBN: 1349028924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349028924
Издательство: Springer
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Автор: Samuel Richardson
Название: Correspondence of Richardson`s Final Years (1755–1761)
ISBN: 0521831881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521831888
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first scholarly edition of author, printer and businessman Samuel Richardson`s correspondence from his final years as he struggles with physical decline. Drawn from a range of print and manuscript sources, the letters are fully annotated and supported by a textual apparatus detailing all emendations and editorial adjustments.

Автор: Driscoll Kerry
Название: Mark Twain Among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples
ISBN: 0520310748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520310742
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The definitive account of Twain's views about American Indians and other indigenous peoples from writings across his entire career.

Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials--including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal library--Driscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 1895-96 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rule. This groundbreaking work of cultural studies offers fresh readings of canonical texts such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roughing It, and Following the Equator, as well as a number of Twain's shorter works.

Автор: Twain Mark
Название: Mark Twain`s San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "the Livest Heartiest Community on Our Continent " by America`s Greatest Writer
ISBN: 1597144894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597144896
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Описание: This book discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. From how museums acquire their holdings, to how they are conserved, to how accessible they are, the book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the duties museum by definition assume

Автор: Bird John
Название: Mark Twain in Context
ISBN: 1108472605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108472609
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book places Mark Twain in his literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Its thirty-four chapters, written by experts on the various topics, cover many facets of Twain`s life and works. The book will be of interest to scholars and students researching Twain.

Автор: Walker
Название: Mark Twain
ISBN: 1138505226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138505223
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Originally published in 1970. Mark Twain is generally known as a children`s writer. This serious and appreciative introduction by I. M. Walker shows that he is in fact a great writer who produced mature and developed literature. The study of his works is divided into five sections: the comic narrator; techniques of humour; character portrayal; style and description; and irony and satire.

Автор: Long
Название: The New Mark Twain Handbook
ISBN: 1138502073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138502079
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, the various contributions. Each chapter includes a thorough annotated bibliography. This title also includes a comprehensive chronological table of the significant events in Mark Twain’s Life, including the publication dates of his works. This title will be of interest to students of American Literature.

Автор: Bridgman Richard
Название: Traveling in Mark Twain
ISBN: 0520301404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520301405
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Suffering from wanderlust like many of his countrymen, Mark Twain had the good fortune to be paid to offer his observations in a series of travel letters and books. Curious and indefatigable, he used his incomparable skills to produce the vivid descriptions and humorous commentaries that made his books immensely popular. At the same time, travel writing afforded him the opportunity to engage in more personal explorations.

The looseness of the travel narrative enabled Twain to put down virtually whatever came to mind, with little concern about connections. At a time when established values were faltering, this tolerance suited him. His travel books are strings of incidents, anecdotes, descriptions, and the occasional odd detail, all arranged along a geographical line. At any given moment, Twain's anarchistic independence was free to assert itself.

The travel books are more than entertaining compilations. They represent serious, if offhand, explorations of Mark Twain's outer and inner worlds and help define him as part of the whole van of modernists moving into the twentieth century.

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 1987.

Автор: Stoneley
Название: Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic
ISBN: 0521102286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521102285
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Mark Twain`s preoccupation with the nature and value of the `feminine` has long been recognized as a central feature of his writing. In this 1992 volume, Peter Stoneley goes beyond generalizations to provide a detailed analysis of this theme.

Название: Mark Twain under Fire
ISBN: 1640140344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640140349
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: 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.

Название: Mark twain and money
ISBN: 0817319441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817319441
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens’s often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain’s writing.   While most readers are familiar with Mark Twain the worldly wise writer, fewer are acquainted with Samuel Clemens the avid businessman. Throughout his life, he sought to strike it rich, whether mining for silver in Nevada, founding his own publishing company, or staking out ownership in the Paige typesetting machine. He was ever on the lookout for investment schemes and was intrigued by inventions, his own and those of others, that he imagined would net a windfall. Conventional wisdom has held that Clemens’s obsession with business and material wealth hindered his ability to write more and better books. However, this perspective fails to recognize how his interest in economics served as a rich source of inspiration for his literary creativity and is inseparable from his achievements as a writer. In fact, without this preoccupation with monetary success, Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe argue, Twain’s writing would lack an important connection to a cornerstone of American culture.   The contributors to this volume examine a variety of topics, such as a Clemens family myth of vast landholdings, Clemens’s strategies for protecting the Mark Twain brand, his insights into rapidly evolving nineteenth-century financial practices, the persistence of patronage in the literary marketplace, the association of manhood and monetary success, Clemens’s attitude and actions toward poverty, his response to the pains of bankruptcy through writing, and the intersection of racial identity and economics in American culture. These illuminating essays show how pecuniary matters invigorate a wide range of Twain’s writing from The Gilded Age, Roughing It,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, to later stories like “The £1,000,000 Banknote” and the Autobiography.