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Mark Twain'S Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

by Mark Twain

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 Six, years after Mark Twain''s death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author''s literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silently cut and cobbled from three unfinished manuscripts. This volume presents those manuscripts for the first time, exactly as mark Twain wrote them. Paine''s disingenuous account of the history of his edition has, until recently, misled critics into believing that Mark Twain''s creative abilities deserted him for a time, only to be recovered in the composition of The Mysterious Stranger. By writing this tale, said Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain "saved himself in the end, and came back from the edge of insanity, and found as much peace as any man may find in his last years, and brought his talent into fruition and made it whole again." Although most critics have praised the work as the finest fiction of Mark Twain''s later years, Paine and his collaborator, Frederick A. Duneka, so changed many of the book''s essentials that it does not fully or accurately reflect the author''s mood and thought. Paine''s edition of the book was based, for the most part, on the earliest of the three versions, written during the time of Mark Twain''s supposed creative paralysis. He and Duneka suppressed a quarter of the text of this manuscript and grafted onto it the last chapter of the latest version. Mark Twain began the first manuscript, "The Chronicle of Young Satan," in 1897; late in 1898, he tried to recast the story in a Hannibal setting, then returned to his first version, only to abandon it permanently in 1900. Between 1902 and 1908, he worked on the third and longest version, the only one the author called "The Mysterious Stranger." The publication of these texts therefore offers an opportunity to observe Mark Twain''s sustained literary struggle with a central theme and to reevaluate the tantalizing question of the author''s late work. This title was originally published in 1969. Six, years after Mark Twain''s death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author''s literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silently cut and cobbled from three unfinished manuscripts. This volume presents those manuscripts for</DIV
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 4 - 1870-1871

by Mark Twain

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 Contains 338 letters that document the first two years of the author's loving marriage to Olivia L Langdon. This title recounts a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 5 - 1872-1873

by Mark Twain

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 A volume of Mark Twain's letters, the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as "The Mark Twain Papers" and "Works of Mark Twain".
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 1 - 1853-1866

by Mark Twain

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 Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 1, 1853–1866 inaugurates the comprehensive edition of Samuel Clemens’s correspondence, tracing his transformation from an ambitious journeyman printer into the writer who would become Mark Twain. This first volume gathers letters from Twain’s early travels across the United States and his formative years in Nevada and California, culminating in the period just before the publication of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. The correspondence captures his wit, irreverence, and sharp eye for character, while also offering candid glimpses of his personal struggles, ambitions, and relationships with family and friends. Edited with full annotation, the letters are accompanied by contextual notes that illuminate Twain’s cultural milieu and clarify references to people, events, and places central to his development. They reveal the interplay between Twain’s lived experiences—riverboat piloting, mining, and reporting—and his growing literary voice. Together, these documents chronicle the apprenticeship of an American humorist while enriching our understanding of the social and cultural world of mid-nineteenth-century America. This first volume is indispensable to scholars and general readers alike, presenting the raw material of a life that would reshape American literature.
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Mark Twain'S Notebooks And Journals, Volume Ii - 1877-1883

by Mark Twain

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 In fleeing from a war which principle and temperament prevented him from supporting, Clemens entered into the first stages of his literary career by serving as a reporter for newspapers in Virginia City and San Francisco. This title deals with his life.
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Mark Twain'S Satires And Burlesques

by Mark Twain

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 In several instances Mark Twain gave the impression that for him plotting a novel was a rather simple affair... But in actuality, this volume illustrates that he experienced much more trouble than this statement would suggest in delimiting his fictional world, establishing its nature, and maintaining control over the characters placed therein.
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Mark Twain'S Hannibal, Huck, And Tom

by Mark Twain

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 Provides the texts of Twain's writings, both fictional and factual, about the people and places of his home town, Hannibal, Missouri. This title presents details about antebellum Hannibal, its society and its attitudes toward slavery, and to vivid memories about the child, his mother, and his father in the 1840's and 1850's.
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 3 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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 Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."—New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."—Los Angeles Times Book Review When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The Autobiography’s "Closing Words" movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript," Mark Twain’s caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair" of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency. Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, Autobiography of Mark Twain has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete Autobiography emerges as a landmark publication in American literature. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 2 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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 Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.
Mark Twain'S &Quote;Which Was The Dream?&Quote; And Other Symbolic Writings Of The Later Years

by Mark Twain

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 A man has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur and he experiences a nightmarish time of failure. He clutches at what may be a saving thought: perhaps he is indeed living in a nightmare from which he will awaken to his former felicity.
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 2 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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 Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.
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Mark Twain'S Satires And Burlesques

by Mark Twain

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 In several instances Mark Twain gave the impression that for him plotting a novel was a rather simple affair... But in actuality, this volume illustrates that he experienced much more trouble than this statement would suggest in delimiting his fictional world, establishing its nature, and maintaining control over the characters placed therein.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 5 - 1872-1873

by Mark Twain

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 A volume of Mark Twain's letters, the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as "The Mark Twain Papers" and "Works of Mark Twain".
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." This title tells his story.
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 2 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 1 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 3 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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Hellenistic Philosophy - Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics

by A. A. Long

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 Traces the main developments in Greek philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the end of the Roman Republic (31 BC). This book helps to remove misconceptions.
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain, Volume 3 - The Complete And Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain

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 Chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. This book deals with his life and work.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 4 - 1870â€“1871

by Mark Twain

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 Contains 338 letters that document the first two years of the author's loving marriage to Olivia L Langdon. This title recounts a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 3 - 1869

by Mark Twain

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 Gatheres the 188 letters that show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. This title captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 2 - 1867-1868

by Mark Twain

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 Contains the letters that trace young Sam Clemens' remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of "The Jumping Frog", soon to be a national and international celebrity.
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Mark Twain'S Letters, Volume 1 - 1853-1866

by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain'S Notebooks And Journals, Volume Iii - 1883-1891

by Mark Twain

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 Spanning the years 1883 to 1891, a period during which Mark Twain's personal fortunes reached their zenith, as he emerged as one of the most successful authors and publishers in American literary history, this title offers a view of this turbulent period, whose triumphs were tempered by intimations of financial disaster and personal bitterness.
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