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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, author.
- Vonnegut, Kurt, author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,
- Other Title:
- Unabridged Mark Twain. Volume 1 with opening remarks by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Mark Twain
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa : Courage Books, [1997]
- Contents:
- Volume I. The weather in this book
- Opening remarks / by 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 the 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 41,000,000 bank note
- Playing courier
- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg.
- Volume II. A Burlesque Biography
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Comedy of 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 Stolen White Elephant
- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
- . Some Rambling Notes for an Idle Excursion
- Travelling with a Reformer
- The Loves of Alonzo FitzClarence 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:
- "Editorial assistance by Andrew Hoffman. Typography: English Roman, by Type Design Innovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; composition direction by Joe Hammond."--Volume I title page verso.
- "Interior illustration by Suzanne Clee. Design by Peter John Dorman & Stuart Teacher. Research assistance by Richard Schall."--Volume II title page verso.
- "This book was typeset from first editions of Mark Twain's works. The publisher wishes to thank Lyman W. Riley, Assistant Director of Libraries for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, for his help in procuring these first editions."--Volume II title page verso.
- Blue leather boards stamped and lettered in gold; gold edges.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press volume 1 is "4" printing.
- Running Press volume II is "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 076240180X
- 9780762401802
- OCLC:
- 779682599
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