Letters From the Earth : : Uncensored Writings
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Call Number: 818 Tw, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Twain, Mark
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Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1962.
Foreword / by Henry Nash Smith. -- Letters from the Earth. -- Papers of the Adam family: Extract from Methuselah's diary ; A later extract from Methuselah's diary ; Extract from Eve's autobiography ; Passage from Eve's autobiography ; The world in the year 920 after creation ; Two fragments from a suppressed book called "Glances at history" or "Outlines of history" ; Extract from Shem's diary of 920 A.C. -- Letter to the Earth. -- A cat-tale. -- Cooper's prose style. -- Official report to the I.I.A.S. -- The Gorky incident. -- Simplified spelling. -- Something about repentance. -- From an English notebook: The Albert Memorial ; Old Saint Paul's ; The British Museum. -- From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad": the French and the Comanches. -- From an unfinished burlesque of books on etiquette: At the funeral ; At a fire ; Visiting cards. -- The damned human race: Was the world made for man? ; In the animals' court ; Zola's La terre ; The intelligence of God ; The lowest animal. -- The great dark.
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Harper Perennial modern classics.
PUBLISHED
New York : Perennial Classics, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 317, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0060518650
9780060518653
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
SUBJECTS
American wit and humor.
Wit and humor.
American literature.
American letters.