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



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Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 / / edited with an introduction by Lewis Leary Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1969
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 768 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits
Disciplina: 817/.4
Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Soggetto non controllato: american authors
american literature
author
autobiography
bankruptcy
billiards
biography
business man
business
career
classics
correspondence
epistolary
famous author
financial disaster
friendship
gender
hh rogers
humor
letters
literary celebrity
literary criticism
literary figures
male friendship
mark twain
masculinity
memoir
pen pals
poker
prizefights
publisher
publishing
samuel clemens
satire
speaking tour
sports
wealth
yacht
Classificazione: HT 4702
Altri autori: RogersHenry Huttleston <1840-1909.>  
LearyLewis <1906-1990.>  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-90506-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778067303321
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Serie: Mark Twain Papers