Life As I Find It
A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2000
448 pages
978-1-4617-0252-8 (ISBN)
Description
Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Globe Pequot Press
File size
1,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4617-0252-8 (9781461702528)
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Edited by Charles Neider
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Mark Twain Uncensored
- Introduction
- Part I: Essays, Sketches,and Tales
- Life as I Find it
- The Facts in the Case of the Senate Doorkeeper
- Female Suffrage
- Private Habits of Horace Greeley
- Ye Cuban Patriot: A Calm Inspection of Him
- Last Words of Great Men
- The Late Reliable Contraband
- A Mystery Cleared up
- Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt
- To the California Pioneers
- The Wild Man Interviewed
- About Smells
- The Approaching Epidemic
- Breaking it Gently
- A Couple of Sad Experiences
- Curious Relic for Sale
- A Daring Attempt at a Solution of it
- The European War
- Favors from Correspondents
- A General Reply
- Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
- Hogwash
- Introductory to Memoranda
- A Literary "Old Offender
- Map of Paris
- A Memory
- The Noble Red Man
- Our Precious Lunatic
- The "Present" Nuisance
- The Reception at the President's
- A Royal Compliment
- The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
- Unburlesquable Things
- A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science
- The Coming Man
- Francis Lightfoot Lee
- The Indignity Put Upon the Remains ...
- One of Mankind's Bores
- The Tone-Imparting Committee
- John Camden Hotten
- British Benevolence
- Foster's Case
- The Curious Republic of Gondour
- Duncan of the Quaker City
- Duncan Once More
- The Sandwich Islands
- A Boston Girl
- The Omitted Chapter of The Prince and the Pauper
- On the Philosophy of Shaving
- A Tale for Struggling Young Poets
- Smoking as Inspiration
- Woman, God Bless Her!
- Ah Sin, the Heathen Chinee
- On Training Children
- Remarkable Gold Mines
- International Copyright
- An Author's Soldiering
- American Authors and British Pirates
- The Art of Composition
- A Kind-Hearted Druggist
- A Love Song
- Talk About Twins
- James Hammond Trumbull
- The Panama Railroad
- The Pains of Lowly Life
- A Defence of General Funston
- The Yacht Races
- Letter to Governor Francis
- Concerning Copyright
- The Czar's Soliloquy
- John Hay and the Ballads
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- A Visit to the Savage Club
- The Suppressed Chapter of Life on the Mississippi
- Part II: Selected Interviews
- Political Views of a Humorist: New York Herald, August 28, 1876
- Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain: New York Herald, August 17, 1890
- Of Course I Am Dying": New York Herald, June 6, 1897
- Mark Twain Says He's Discouraged: New York World, June 17, 1900
- Mark Twain, the Greatest American Humorist, Returning: Home, Talks at Length to the World New York World, October 14, 1900
- Mark Twain Home, an Anti-Imperialist: New York Herald, October 16, 1900
- My Impressions of America": New York World, October 21, 1900
- Mark Twain Bearded in His New York Den by a Camera Fiend: New York Herald, January 20, 1901
- Mark Twain Would Convert Tammany Police: New York Herald, October 14, 1901
- My First Vacation and My Last"-Mark Twain: New York World, September 7, 1902
- Mark Twain's Door Open to Burglars: New York Herald, June 15, 1903
- Mark Twain Would Kill Bosses by Third Party: New York Herald, November 12, 1905
- Mark Twain's Seventy Years: New York American and Journal, November 26, 1905
- Twain Calls Leopold Slayer of 15,000,000: New York Herald, December 3, 1905
- Mark Twain Too Lazy for a United States Senator: New York Herald, March 11, 1906
- Mighty Mark Twain Overawes Marines: New York Times, May 12., 1907
- Mark Twain Tells the Secrets of Novelists: New York American, May 26, 1907
- Mark Twain Sails
- Shiest Man Aboard: New York American, June 9, 1907
- Mark Twain Tells Sea Tales: New York Sun, June 19, 1907
- Mark Twain Home in Good Humor: New York Times, July 23, 1907
- Sources
- Index of Titles
- Index
