Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living

A Handbook for the Damned Human Race

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Mark Twain )

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Hardback

Series:

Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain

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Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook - an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race - contains sixtynine 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.

Author Biography:

Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank are editors at the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley.

Release date Australia

October 18th, 2004

Author

Mark Twain )

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by Lin Salamo
Edited by Michael Barry Frank
Edited by Victor Fischer

Illustrations

36 b-w photographs

Pages

224

Series

Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain

Dimensions

152x203x20

ISBN-13

9780520242456

Product ID

1906927

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