Mark Twain's Letters

 

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Mark Twain's Letters


by Mark Twain (Author)
Harriet Elinor Smith (Volume Editor)
Lin Salamo (Volume Editor)

 

Hardback

ISBN: 9780520208223

 

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Contains 309 letters, which are annotated and indexed. The letters in this title are supplemented by charts of the Clemens and Langdon families, a transcription of the journals Clemens kept during his 1872 visit to England, book contracts, his preface to the English edition of "The Gilded Age", and photographs of family and friends.


Clemens' personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria.Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. The 309 letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they are supplemented by genealogical charts of the Clemens and Langdon families, a transcription of the journals Clemens kept during his 1872 visit to England, book contracts, his preface to the English edition of "The Gilded Age", contemporary photographs of family and friends, and a gathering of all newly discovered letters written between 1865 and 1871. This volume is the fifth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted, and the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as "The Mark Twain Papers" and "Works of Mark Twain".


 

ISBN 520208226
ISBN13 9780520208223
Publisher University of California Press
Format Hardback
Publication date 07/07/1997
Pages 974
Weight (grammes) 1542
Published in United States
Height (mm) 235
Width (mm) 159

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