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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810353803321

Autore

Twain Mark <1835-1910.>

Titolo

Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 / / edited with an introduction by Lewis Leary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1969

ISBN

0-520-90506-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 768 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Collana

Mark Twain papers

Classificazione

HT 4702

Altri autori (Persone)

RogersHenry Huttleston <1840-1909.>

LearyLewis <1906-1990.>

Disciplina

817/.4

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- I. "FUSSING WITH BUSINESS" (December 1893-February 1895) -- II. "As LONG AS THE PROMISE MUST BE MADE" (March 1895- August 1896) -- III. "OUR UNSPEAKABLE DISASTER" (August 1896-July 1897) -- IV. "You AND I ARE A TEAM" (July 1897-May 1899) -- V. "THIS EVERLASTING EXILE" (June 1899-August 1900) -- VI. "THIS ODIOUS SWINDLE" (October 1900-June 1904) -- VII. "NOTHING AGREES WITH ME" (July 1904-March 1908) -- VIII. "I WISH HENRY ROGERS WOULD COME HERE" (June 1908- May 1909) -- Afterword -- APPENDIXES -- A Calendar of Letters -- Biographical Directory -- GENEALOGICAL CHARTS -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as



he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and-in private-long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht.