Letters from the earth / [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] ; edited by Bernard DeVoto ; with a preface by Henry Nash Smith
- Bib ID:
- 4839325
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Description:
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- New York : Harper & Row, [1962]
- ix, 303 p. ; 22 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Letters from the earth
- Papers of the Adam family. Extract from Methuselah's diary ; A later extract from Methuselah's diary ; Extract from Eve's autobiography ; Passage from Eve's autobiography : year of the world, 920 ; The world in the year 920 after creation ; Two fragments from a suppressed book called "Glances at history" or "Outlines of history" ; Extract from Shem's diary of 920 A.C.
- Letter to the earth
- A cat-tale
- Cooper's prose style
- Official report to the I.I.A.S. (1909)
- The Gorky incident (1906)
- Simplified spelling
- Something about repentance (1908)
- From an English notebook. The Albert Memorial ; Old Saint Paul's ; The British Museum
- From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad" (1879) : the French and the Comanches
- From unfinished burlesque of books on etiquette. At the funeral ; At a fire ; Visiting cards
- The damned human race. Was the world made for man? ; In the animals' court ; Zola's La terre ; The intelligence of God ; The lowest animal
- The great dark.
- Notes:
- "Bibliographical note": p. 303.
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2032 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1955
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1962
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