| Titre : |
Collected tales, sketches, speeches and essays |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Mark (pseud. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835-1910), Auteur ; Louis J. Budd, Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
New York [États-Unis] : Library of America |
| Année de publication : |
1992 |
| Collection : |
Literary classics of the United States num. 60-61 |
| Importance : |
XII +1050 p. |
| Format : |
21 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-940450-36-3 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Adresses, essais, conférences américains -- 19e siècle ; Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle ; Littérature américaine -- Humeur -- 19e siècle ; Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Correspondences ; Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Vues politiques et sociales
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain
This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings ' the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly two hundred separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, and the feverish corruption, avarice, and ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, and the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," and the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous and successful speeches and toasts, such as "Woman ' God Bless Her," "The Babies," and "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture and banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes |
| Note de contenu : |
[1], 1852-1890: 1852: The Dandy Frightening the Squatter; Historical Exhibition: A No. 1 Ruse; Editorial Agility; Blabbing Government Secrets! -- 1859: River Intelligence -- 1861: Ghost Life on the Mississippi -- 1862: Petrified Man -- 1863: Letter from Carson City; Ye Sentimental Law Student; All About the Fashions; Letter from Steamboat Springs; How to Cure a Cold; The Lick House Ball; The Great Prize Fight; A Bloody Massacre Near Carson; "Ingomar" Over the Mountains -- 1864: Miss Clapp's School; Doings in Nevada; Those Blasted Children; Washoe: Information Wanted; The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones; Whereas; A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood; The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"; Lucretia Smith's Soldier -- 1865: Important Correspondence; Answers to Correspondents; Advice for Good Little Boys; Advice for Good Little Girls; Just One More Unfortunate; Real Estate versus Imaginary Possessions, Poetically Considered; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog; "Mark Twain" on the Launch of the Steamer "Capital"; The Pioneers' Ball; Uncle Lige; A Rich Epigram; Macdougall vs. Maguire; The Christmas Fireside -- 1866: Policemen's Presents; What Have the Police Been Doing?; The Spiritual Seance; A New Biography of Washington; Reflections on the Sabbath -- 1867: Barnum's First Speech in Congress; Female Suffrage: Views of Mark Twain; Female Suffrage; Official Physic; A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward; Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats; Information Wanted; The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation -- 1868: Woman: an Opinion; General Washington's Negro Body-Servant; Colloquy Between a Slum Child and a Moral Mentor; My Late Senatorial Secretaryship; The Story of Mamie Grant, the Child-Missionary; Cannibalism in the Cars; Private Habits of Horace Greeley; Concerning Gen. Grant's Intentions -- 1869: Open Letter to Com. Vanderbilt; Mr. Beecher and the Clergy; Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins; A Day at Niagara; A Fine Old Man; Journalism in Tennessee; The Last Words of Great Men; The Legend of the Capitoline Venus; Getting My Fortune Told; Back from "Yurrup" -- 1870: An Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance; A Mysterious Visit; The Facts in the Great Land-Slide Case; The New Crime; Curious Dream; About Smells; The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract; The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper; Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy; Misplaced Confidence; Our Precious Lunatic; A Couple of Sad Experiences; The Judge's "Spirited Woman"; Breaking It Gently; Post-Mortem Poetry; Wit-Inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds; The Widow's Protest; Report to the Buffalo Female Academy; How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once; The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870; Unburlesquable Things; The Late Benjamin Franklin; A Memory; Domestic Missionaries Wanted; Political Economy; John Chinaman in New York; The Noble Red Man; The Approaching Epidemic; A Royal Compliment; Science vs. Luck; Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again; Map of Paris; Riley: Newspaper Correspondent; A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements; A General Reply; Running for Governor; Dogberry in Washington; My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale -- 1871: The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased; The Tone-Imparting Committee; The Danger of Lying in Bed; One of Mankind's Bores; The Indignity Put upon the Remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine; A Substitute for Rulloff; About Barbers; A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; The Revised Catechism -- 1872: The Secret of Dr. Livingstone's Continued Voluntary Exile; How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel -- 1873: Poor Little Stephen Girard; Foster's Case; License of the Press; Fourth of July Speech in London; The Ladies -- 1874: Those Annual Bills; The Temperance Insurrection; Rogers; A Curious Pleasure Excursion; A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It; An Encounter with an Interviewer -- 1875: The "Jumping Frog." In English. Then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more, by patient, unremunerated toil; Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup; Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls; Petition Concerning Copyright; "Party Cries" in Ireland; The Curious Republic of Gondour -- 1876: A Literary Nightmare; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut; [Date, 1601] Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors; The Canvasser's Tale; The Oldest Inhabitant: the Weather of New England -- 1877: Francis Lightfoot Lee; My Military History; The Captain's Story; The Invalid's Story; Whittier Birthday Speech -- 1878: Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor; About Magnanimous-Incident Literature -- 1879: the Great Revolution in Pitcairn; Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism; A Presidential Candidate; The Babies. As They Comfort Us in Our Sorrows, Let Us Not Forget Them in Our Festivities; The New Postal Barbarism; Postal Matters -- 1880: A Telephonic Conversation; Reply to a Boston Girl; Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale; Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; "Millions In It"; A Cat Tale -- 1881: The Benefit of Judicious Training; Dinner Speech in Montreal; Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims; Etiquette -- 1882: Advice to Youth; The Stolen White Elephant; On the Decay of the Art of Lying; Concerning the American Language; Woman: God Bless Her; The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm -- 1883: On Adam; Why a Statue of Liberty When We Have Adam! -- 1884: Turncoats ; Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan -- 1885: The Character of Man; On Speech-Making Reform; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed -- 1886: The New Dynasty; Our Children; Taming the Bicycle -- 1887: Letter from the Recording Angel; Dinner Speech: General Grant's Grammar; Consistency; Post-Prandial Oratory; A Petition to the Queen of England -- 1888: American Authors and British Pirates -- 1889: Yale College Speech; The Christening Yarn; To Walt Witman -- 1890: On Foreign Critics; Reply to the Editor of "The Art of Authorship"; An Appeal Against Injudicious Swearing .
V.2 1891-1910 -- 1891: Aix-les-Bains; Playing Courier; Mental Telegraphy -- 1892: The Cradle of Liberty -- 1893: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; About All Kinds of Ships; Extracts from Adam's Diary; Is He Living or Is He Dead?; The Esquimau Maiden's Romance; Travelling with a Reformer; Concerning Tobacco -- 1894: Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story; Macfarlane -- 1895: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us; Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences; Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses; How to Tell a Story -- 1896: Man's Place in the Animal World -- 1897: In Memoriam; Which Was the Dream? -- 1898: A Word of Encouragement for Our Blushing Exiles; About Play-Acting; From the "London Times" of 1904; My Platonic Sweetheart; The Great Dark -- 1899: Diplomatic Pay and Clothes; Concerning the Jews; Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; My First Lie and How I Got Out of It -- 1900: My Boyhood Dreams; Introducing Winston S. Churchill; A Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth, Taken Down in Short-Hand by Mark Twain -- 1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness; Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date); As Regards Patriotism; The United States of Lyncherdom; Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany; Two Little Tales; Corn-Pone Opinions -- 1902: Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?; The Five Boons of Life; Was It Heaven? Or Hell?; The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger -- 1903: Why Not Abolish It?; Mark Twain, Able Yachtsman, on Why Lipton Failed to Lift the Cup; A Dog's Tale; "Was the World Made for Man?" -- 1904: Italian Without a Master; Saint Joan of Arc; The $30,000 Bequest -- 1905: Concerning Copyright; Adam's Soliloquy; The Czar's Soliloquy; Dr. Loeb's Incredible Discovery; The War Prayer; A Humane Word from Satan; Christian Citizenship; King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule; A Helpless Situation; Overspeeding; In the Animal's Court; Eve's Diary; Eve Speaks; Seventieth Birthday Dinner Speech; Old Age -- 1906: The Gorky Incident; William Dean Howells; What Is Man?; Hunting the Deceitful Turkey -- 1907: Dinner Speech at Annapolis; Our Guest; The Day We Celebrate; Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven -- 1908: Little Bessie -- 1909: The New Planet; A Fable; Letters from the Earth -- 1910: The Turning Point of My Life |
Collected tales, sketches, speeches and essays [texte imprimé] / Mark (pseud. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835-1910), Auteur ; Louis J. Budd, Editeur scientifique . - New York (États-Unis) : Library of America, 1992 . - XII +1050 p. ; 21 cm. - ( Literary classics of the United States; 60-61) . ISBN : 978-0-940450-36-3 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Adresses, essais, conférences américains -- 19e siècle ; Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle ; Littérature américaine -- Humeur -- 19e siècle ; Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Correspondences ; Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Vues politiques et sociales
|
| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain
This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings ' the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career. The nearly two hundred separate items in this volume cover the years from 1852 to 1890. As a riverboat pilot, Confederate irregular, silver miner, frontier journalist, and publisher, Twain witnessed the tragicomic beginning of the Civil War in Missouri, the frenzied opening of the West, and the feverish corruption, avarice, and ambition of the Reconstruction era. He wrote about political bosses, jumping frogs, robber barons, cats, women's suffrage, temperance, petrified men, the bicycle, the Franco-Prussian War, the telephone, the income tax, the insanity defense, injudicious swearing, and the advisability of political candidates preemptively telling the worst about themselves before others get around to it. Among the stories included here are "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," which won him instant fame when published in 1865, "Cannibalism in the Cars," "The Invalid's Story," and the charming "A Cat's Tale," written for his daughters' private amusement. This volume also presents several of his famous and successful speeches and toasts, such as "Woman ' God Bless Her," "The Babies," and "Advice to Youth." Such writings brought Twain immense success on the public lecture and banquet circuit, as did his controversial "Whittier Birthday Speech," which portrayed Boston's most revered men of letters as a band of desperadoes |
| Note de contenu : |
[1], 1852-1890: 1852: The Dandy Frightening the Squatter; Historical Exhibition: A No. 1 Ruse; Editorial Agility; Blabbing Government Secrets! -- 1859: River Intelligence -- 1861: Ghost Life on the Mississippi -- 1862: Petrified Man -- 1863: Letter from Carson City; Ye Sentimental Law Student; All About the Fashions; Letter from Steamboat Springs; How to Cure a Cold; The Lick House Ball; The Great Prize Fight; A Bloody Massacre Near Carson; "Ingomar" Over the Mountains -- 1864: Miss Clapp's School; Doings in Nevada; Those Blasted Children; Washoe: Information Wanted; The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones; Whereas; A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood; The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"; Lucretia Smith's Soldier -- 1865: Important Correspondence; Answers to Correspondents; Advice for Good Little Boys; Advice for Good Little Girls; Just One More Unfortunate; Real Estate versus Imaginary Possessions, Poetically Considered; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog; "Mark Twain" on the Launch of the Steamer "Capital"; The Pioneers' Ball; Uncle Lige; A Rich Epigram; Macdougall vs. Maguire; The Christmas Fireside -- 1866: Policemen's Presents; What Have the Police Been Doing?; The Spiritual Seance; A New Biography of Washington; Reflections on the Sabbath -- 1867: Barnum's First Speech in Congress; Female Suffrage: Views of Mark Twain; Female Suffrage; Official Physic; A Reminiscence of Artemus Ward; Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats; Information Wanted; The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation -- 1868: Woman: an Opinion; General Washington's Negro Body-Servant; Colloquy Between a Slum Child and a Moral Mentor; My Late Senatorial Secretaryship; The Story of Mamie Grant, the Child-Missionary; Cannibalism in the Cars; Private Habits of Horace Greeley; Concerning Gen. Grant's Intentions -- 1869: Open Letter to Com. Vanderbilt; Mr. Beecher and the Clergy; Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins; A Day at Niagara; A Fine Old Man; Journalism in Tennessee; The Last Words of Great Men; The Legend of the Capitoline Venus; Getting My Fortune Told; Back from "Yurrup" -- 1870: An Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance; A Mysterious Visit; The Facts in the Great Land-Slide Case; The New Crime; Curious Dream; About Smells; The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract; The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper; Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy; Misplaced Confidence; Our Precious Lunatic; A Couple of Sad Experiences; The Judge's "Spirited Woman"; Breaking It Gently; Post-Mortem Poetry; Wit-Inspirations of the "Two-Year-Olds; The Widow's Protest; Report to the Buffalo Female Academy; How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once; The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870; Unburlesquable Things; The Late Benjamin Franklin; A Memory; Domestic Missionaries Wanted; Political Economy; John Chinaman in New York; The Noble Red Man; The Approaching Epidemic; A Royal Compliment; Science vs. Luck; Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again; Map of Paris; Riley: Newspaper Correspondent; A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements; A General Reply; Running for Governor; Dogberry in Washington; My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale -- 1871: The Facts in the Case of George Fisher, Deceased; The Tone-Imparting Committee; The Danger of Lying in Bed; One of Mankind's Bores; The Indignity Put upon the Remains of George Holland by the Rev. Mr. Sabine; A Substitute for Rulloff; About Barbers; A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science; The Revised Catechism -- 1872: The Secret of Dr. Livingstone's Continued Voluntary Exile; How I Escaped Being Killed in a Duel -- 1873: Poor Little Stephen Girard; Foster's Case; License of the Press; Fourth of July Speech in London; The Ladies -- 1874: Those Annual Bills; The Temperance Insurrection; Rogers; A Curious Pleasure Excursion; A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It; An Encounter with an Interviewer -- 1875: The "Jumping Frog." In English. Then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more, by patient, unremunerated toil; Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup; Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls; Petition Concerning Copyright; "Party Cries" in Ireland; The Curious Republic of Gondour -- 1876: A Literary Nightmare; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut; [Date, 1601] Conversation, as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors; The Canvasser's Tale; The Oldest Inhabitant: the Weather of New England -- 1877: Francis Lightfoot Lee; My Military History; The Captain's Story; The Invalid's Story; Whittier Birthday Speech -- 1878: Farewell Banquet for Bayard Taylor; About Magnanimous-Incident Literature -- 1879: the Great Revolution in Pitcairn; Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism; A Presidential Candidate; The Babies. As They Comfort Us in Our Sorrows, Let Us Not Forget Them in Our Festivities; The New Postal Barbarism; Postal Matters -- 1880: A Telephonic Conversation; Reply to a Boston Girl; Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale; Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; "Millions In It"; A Cat Tale -- 1881: The Benefit of Judicious Training; Dinner Speech in Montreal; Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims; Etiquette -- 1882: Advice to Youth; The Stolen White Elephant; On the Decay of the Art of Lying; Concerning the American Language; Woman: God Bless Her; The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm -- 1883: On Adam; Why a Statue of Liberty When We Have Adam! -- 1884: Turncoats ; Mock Oration on the Dead Partisan -- 1885: The Character of Man; On Speech-Making Reform; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed -- 1886: The New Dynasty; Our Children; Taming the Bicycle -- 1887: Letter from the Recording Angel; Dinner Speech: General Grant's Grammar; Consistency; Post-Prandial Oratory; A Petition to the Queen of England -- 1888: American Authors and British Pirates -- 1889: Yale College Speech; The Christening Yarn; To Walt Witman -- 1890: On Foreign Critics; Reply to the Editor of "The Art of Authorship"; An Appeal Against Injudicious Swearing .
V.2 1891-1910 -- 1891: Aix-les-Bains; Playing Courier; Mental Telegraphy -- 1892: The Cradle of Liberty -- 1893: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note; About All Kinds of Ships; Extracts from Adam's Diary; Is He Living or Is He Dead?; The Esquimau Maiden's Romance; Travelling with a Reformer; Concerning Tobacco -- 1894: Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story; Macfarlane -- 1895: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us; Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences; Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses; How to Tell a Story -- 1896: Man's Place in the Animal World -- 1897: In Memoriam; Which Was the Dream? -- 1898: A Word of Encouragement for Our Blushing Exiles; About Play-Acting; From the "London Times" of 1904; My Platonic Sweetheart; The Great Dark -- 1899: Diplomatic Pay and Clothes; Concerning the Jews; Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; My First Lie and How I Got Out of It -- 1900: My Boyhood Dreams; Introducing Winston S. Churchill; A Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth, Taken Down in Short-Hand by Mark Twain -- 1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness; Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date); As Regards Patriotism; The United States of Lyncherdom; Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany; Two Little Tales; Corn-Pone Opinions -- 1902: Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?; The Five Boons of Life; Was It Heaven? Or Hell?; The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger -- 1903: Why Not Abolish It?; Mark Twain, Able Yachtsman, on Why Lipton Failed to Lift the Cup; A Dog's Tale; "Was the World Made for Man?" -- 1904: Italian Without a Master; Saint Joan of Arc; The $30,000 Bequest -- 1905: Concerning Copyright; Adam's Soliloquy; The Czar's Soliloquy; Dr. Loeb's Incredible Discovery; The War Prayer; A Humane Word from Satan; Christian Citizenship; King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule; A Helpless Situation; Overspeeding; In the Animal's Court; Eve's Diary; Eve Speaks; Seventieth Birthday Dinner Speech; Old Age -- 1906: The Gorky Incident; William Dean Howells; What Is Man?; Hunting the Deceitful Turkey -- 1907: Dinner Speech at Annapolis; Our Guest; The Day We Celebrate; Little Nelly Tells a Story Out of Her Own Head; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven -- 1908: Little Bessie -- 1909: The New Planet; A Fable; Letters from the Earth -- 1910: The Turning Point of My Life |
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