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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Mark Twain
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Description for Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Salamo, Lin; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B. Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain. Num Pages: 221 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Irreverent, 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 ... Read more
Irreverent, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Series
Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242456
SKU
V9780520242456
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About Mark Twain
Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank are editors at the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
Reviews for Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
"This wonderful book illustrates precisely why we can never have enough Twain. His humor is timeless, his wisdom about all things without equal." - Ken Burns; "If you are wrestling with how to advance stimulating dinner conversation, what to do with unwanted magazine subscriptions, how to deal with the 'odious flummery' of fashion, or whether or not to bring your ... Read more