Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race Hardback
by Mark Twain
Edited by Lin Salamo, Michael Barry Frank, Victor Fischer
Part of the Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain series
Hardback
Description
Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings.
It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars.
Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life.
They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world.
These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 36 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780520242456
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 36 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780520242456
