Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook for the damned human race / / Mark Twain ; edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
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Twain Mark <1835-1910.>
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| Titolo: |
Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook for the damned human race / / Mark Twain ; edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.409 |
| Soggetto topico: | Conduct of life |
| Soggetto non controllato: | american author |
| american literature | |
| anecdotes | |
| aphorisms | |
| autobiography | |
| biography | |
| burglars | |
| childrearing | |
| children | |
| classic literature | |
| classic | |
| classics | |
| comic | |
| dress | |
| etiquette | |
| fashion | |
| fiction | |
| food | |
| funny | |
| grooming | |
| guidebook | |
| health | |
| history | |
| humor | |
| hygiene | |
| jokes | |
| letters | |
| literary celebrity | |
| literary criticism | |
| literary sketch | |
| literature | |
| maxims | |
| memoir | |
| parenting | |
| rogues | |
| salesman | |
| satire | |
| short stories | |
| social commentary | |
| social life | |
| society | |
| speeches | |
| twain | |
| unpublished twain | |
| Altri autori: |
SalamoLin
FischerVictor <1942->
FrankMichael B
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| Note generali: | "The Mark Twain Project is a reserach and editorial project housed within the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Everyday Etiquette -- 2. Modest Proposals and Judicious Complaints -- 3. The American Table -- 4. Travel Manners -- 5. Health and Diet -- 6. Parenting and the Ethical Child -- 7. Clothes, Fashion, and Style -- 8. In Case of Emergency -- About the Texts -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Irreverent, charming, eminently "able, 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living |
| ISBN: | 1-282-46316-0 |
| 9786612463167 | |
| 0-520-93134-3 | |
| 1-59734-736-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810537803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain