Letters from the earth : uncensored writings

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Label

Letters from the earth : uncensored writings

Title remainder

uncensored writings

Statement of responsibility

Mark Twain ; edited by Bernard Devoto

Creator

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Contributor

• De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955

Subject

• American literature
• American wit and humor
• Humor
• American letters

Genre

• Humor

Language

eng

Summary

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 ; 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 ter to the Earth -- A cat-tale -- Cooper's prose style -- Officia l report to the I.I.A.S. -- The Gorky incident -- Simplified spelling -- S omething about repentance -- From an English notebook. The Albert Memorial ; Old Saint Paul's ; The British Museum -- From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad": the French and the Comanches -- From an unfinished burlesque of bo oks 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

Member of

• Harper Perennial modern classics

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

818/.409

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS1302

LC item number

.D43 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Harper Perennial modern classics