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Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain (2004, Hardcover)
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Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race, Hardcover by Twain, Mark; Salamo, Lin; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B.; Bancroft Library Mark Twain Project (COR), ISBN 0520242459, ISBN-13 9780520242456, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this eccentric etiquette guide, aphorisms, suggestions, and cautionary tales culled from Mark Twain's personal letters, speeches, and novels are dispensed on topics such as dress, health, food, childrearing, and safety.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520242459
ISBN-139780520242456
eBay Product ID (ePID)6046069
Product Key Features
Book TitleMark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living : a Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Self-Help
AuthorMark Twain
Book SeriesJumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-024224
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal818/.409
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Everyday Etiquette A Letter of Apology About the Effect of Intemperate Language Be Good, Be Good. A Poem An Innovative Dinner Party Signal System About American Manners Breaking It Gently Courtesy to Unexpected Visitors At the Funeral A Telephonic Conversation 2. Modest Proposals and Judicious Complaints A Christmas Wish Proposal Regarding Local Flooding Complaint about Unreliable Service Notice about a Stolen Umbrella An Appeal against Injudicious Swearing An Unwanted Magazine Subscription On Telephones and Swearing About the Proposed Street-Widening Political Economy Notice. To the Next Burglar Suggestion to Persons Entering Heaven 3. The American Table Memories of Food on an American Farm American versus European Food An Inauspicious Meal A Remarkable Dinner Food and Scenery 4. Travel Manners Traveling in Close Quarters Communicating with the Locals A Night Excursion in a Hotel Room 5. Health and Diet Young Sam Clemens and Old-Time Doctoring The "Wake-Up-Jake" A Healthful Cocktail A Miracle Cure Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup Smoking, Diet, and Health at Age Seventy 6. Parenting and the Ethical Child The Late Benjamin Franklin On Theft and Conscience On Training Children A Sampling of Childish Ethics Youthful Misdemeanors Advice to Youth 7. Clothes, Fashion, and Style A Fashion Item The Hand of Fashion That White Suit Clothes and Deception A Sumptuous Robe 8. In Case of Emergency Playing "Bear" An Apparition The Great Earthquake in San Francisco Escape of the Tarantulas Burglary and the Well-Tempered Householder Under a Policeman's Eye About the Texts Works Cited Acknowledgments
SynopsisIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine 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.
LC Classification NumberPS1303 .S25 2004
