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.>
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| Titolo: |
Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 / / edited with an introduction by Lewis Leary
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| 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.>
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-520-90506-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778067303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Mark Twain Papers