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The Unabridged Mark Twain / opening remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; edited by Lawrence Teacher.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1976
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, 1976-1979.
- Contents:
- [Vol. 1] The weather in this book
- Opening remarks / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- A short note from the editor
- "After" Jenkins
- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
- The innocents abroad
- The undertaker's chat
- The danger of lying in bed
- Lionizing murderers
- A true story repeated word for word as I heard it
- An encounter with an interviewer
- About barbers
- The facts concerning recent carnival of crime in Connecticut
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The journals of Germany
- The prince and the pauper
- On the decay of the art of lying
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
- The private history of a campaign that failed
- The £1,000,000 bank note
- Playing courier
- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg.
- [Vol. 2] A burlesque biography
- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The comedy those extraordinary twins
- The awful German language
- Life on the Mississippi
- A medieval romance
- Extracts from Adam's diary
- Eve's diary
- Roughing It
- How to tell a story
- A curious dream
- My late Senatorial Secretaryship
- A mysterious visit
- Journalism in Tennessee
- A visit to Niagara
- The experiences of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning
- The solen white elephant
- Legend of Sagenfeld in Germany
- Some rambling notes of an idle excursion
- Traveling with a reformer
- The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
- The $30,000 bequest
- Curing a cold
- Disgraceful persecution of a boy
- The canvasser's tale
- At the Appetite-Cure
- Petition to Congress.
- Notes:
- "Art direction and cover design by Jim Wilson. Cover illustration by Charles Santore. Cover calligraphy by Peter Ruge. Editorial assistance by Andrew Hoffman."--Title page verso volume 1.
- "Interior illustration by Suzanne Clee. Design by Peter John Dorman & Stuart Teacher. Research assistance by Richard Scholl."--Title page verso volume 2.
- "Because so many typesetters, writers, editors, and publishers altered Twain's words, I have attempted to go back and set stories and novels exclusively from his first editions. These were the only works that came close to being approved by him. Each novel and short story is preceded by a little note containing an occasional anecdote and a brief chronology of its publication."--Editor's Note volume 2.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy 1 volume 1 is "26" printing.
- Running Press copy 1 volume 2 is "19" printing.
- Running Press copy 2 volume 2 is "15" printing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Selections. 1976. Unabridged Mark Twain.
- ISBN:
- 0914294539
- 9780914294535
- 0914294547
- 9780914294542
- 0894710869
- 9780894710865
- 0894710877
- 9780894710872
- OCLC:
- 2463466
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