| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Series |
Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain ; v. 5 |
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Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain ; 5
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| Contents |
Cover; A FAMILY SKETCH AND OTHER PRIVATE WRITINGS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; A Family Sketch; A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It; A Record of the Small Foolishnesses of Susie and "Bay" Clemens (Infants); At the Farm; Quarry Farm Diary; Mark Twain; About the Texts; About the Illustrations; Biographical Directory; Works Cited; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write ""A Family Sketch"" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire household. His record of the childrens' sayings-""Small F |
| Analysis |
19th century american literature |
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american biographies |
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american history |
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american literature |
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american writers |
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anthology about mark twain |
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at the farm |
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author biographies |
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daily life |
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daughters |
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death |
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family bonds |
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family life |
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famous authors |
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humorist |
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loving family |
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marriage and children |
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marriage |
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pen name |
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personal story |
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pets |
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private life |
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private writings |
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rediscovered mark twain |
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samuel langhorne clemens |
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satirist |
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small foolishnesses |
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social critic |
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wife |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Family
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Authors, American
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Families
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary genre)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845-1904.
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Clemens, Susy, 1872-1896.
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Griffin, Benjamin, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780520959637 |
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0520959639 |
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0520280733 |
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9780520280731 |
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1322101671 |
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9781322101675 |
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