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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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Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.> Visualizza persona
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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
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unpublished twain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  
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910783386603321
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Serie: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain