1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457565103321

Autore

Twain Mark <1835-1910.>

Titolo

Roughing it [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Twain ; illustrated by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others ; editors, Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, [2011], c1995

ISBN

1-283-28387-5

9786613283870

0-520-94806-8

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (888 p.)

Collana

The Mark Twain library ; ; [8]

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsTrue

Mullen <fl. 1859-1872.>

SmithHarriet Elinor

BranchEdgar Marquess <1913->

Disciplina

917.8042

Soggetti

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - West (U.S.)

Electronic books.

West (U.S.) Description and travel

West (U.S.) Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: 1995.

"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFATORY -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- CHAPTER 18 -- CHAPTER 19 -- CHAPTER 20 -- CHAPTER 21 -- CHAPTER 22 -- CHAPTER 23 -- CHAPTER 24 -- CHAPTER 25 -- CHAPTER 26 -- CHAPTER 27 -- CHAPTER 28 -- CHAPTER 29 -- CHAPTER 30 -- CHAPTER 31 -- CHAPTER 32 -- CHAPTER 33 -- CHAPTER 34 -- CHAPTER 35 -- CHAPTER 36 -- CHAPTER 37 -- CHAPTER 38 -- CHAPTER 39 -- CHAPTER 40 -- CHAPTER 41 -- CHAPTER 42 -- CHAPTER 43 -- CHAPTER 44 -- CHAPTER 45



Sommario/riassunto

Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453900703321

Titolo

'Every city shall be forsaken' [[electronic resource] ] : urbanism and prophecy in ancient Israel and the Near East / / edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Robert D. Haak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c2001

ISBN

1-281-84179-X

9786611841799

0-567-45598-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 330

Altri autori (Persone)

GrabbeLester L

HaakRobert D <1949-> (Robert Donel)

Disciplina

016.2299

221.15

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Biblical teaching

Cities and towns, Ancient - Middle East

Urbanization - Middle East

Electronic books.

Middle East Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"The present volume arises out of the work of the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group, a Society of Biblical Literature Group ... "--Preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Cityscape to Landscape: The 'Back to Nature' Theme in Isaiah 1-35; City of Chaos, City of Stone, City of Flesh: Urbanscapes in Prophetic Discourses; Proximity to the Central Davidic Citadel and the Greater and Lesser Prophets; This Land Is my Land: On Nature as Property in the Book of Ezekiel; Sup-Urbs or only Hyp-Urbs? Prophets and Populations in Ancient Israel and Socio-historical Method; The Savage Made Civilized: An Examination of Ezekiel 16.8

Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: Demographic and Sociological Considerations and the Search for an Adequate Methodological Point of DepartureThe Sociology of Preindustrial Cities; City as Lofty as Heaven: Arbela and other Cities in Neo-Assyrian Prophecy; Jerusalem: An Example of War in a Walled City (Isaiah 3-4); Index of References; Index of Modern Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this volume bring together these crucial aspects of modern biblical research, the scope ranging from methodological issues about sociology and urbanism to Assyrian prophecies and specific biblical texts. An introductory chapter surveys recent anthropological study on urbanism, summarizes the essays, and places the different contributions in context.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000101239707536

Autore

Bachmann, Ingeborg

Titolo

Il caso Franza : Requiem per Fanny Goldmann / Ingeborg Bachmann ; edizione originale a cura di Christine Koschel e Inge von Weidenbaum ; trad. di Magda Olivetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Adelphi, 1988

Descrizione fisica

198 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Fabula ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

Koschel, Christine

Weidenbaum, Inge : von

Olivetti, Magda

Disciplina

833.914

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia