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

• Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.>
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1969
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (805 p.)
• Disciplina: 817/.4
• Soggetto topico: Écrivains américains - Correspondance - 19e siècle; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RogersHenry Huttleston <1840-1909.> LearyLewis Gaston <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
• ISBN: 0-520-90506-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454777803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mark Twain Papers