Twain Mark Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1891-1910 9780940450738

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Автор: Twain Mark (Твен Марк)
Название: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1891-1910
ISBN: 9780940450738
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Антологии (прозаические)

Классическая художественная литература (до 1945 Г.)

ISBN-10: 0940450739
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.68 кг.
Дата издания: October 1, 1992
Язык: English
Размер: 20.70 x 13.36 x 3.40
Поставляется из: США
Описание: This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twains short writings--the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of Americas greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career.

This volume contains eighty pieces from the years 1891 to 1910, when Twain emerged from bankruptcy and personal tragedy to become the white-suited, cigar-smoking international celebrity who reported on his own follies and those of humanity with an unerring sense of the absurd. Some stories display Twains fascination with money and greed, such as The Esquimau Maidens Romance and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. Other stories, written after the death of his daughter Susy in 1896, explore the outer limits of fantasy and psychic phenomena, including Which Was the Dream? The Great Dark, and My Platonic Sweetheart.

The United States military involvement in Cuba, China, and the Philippines turned Twains attention to political satire and invective. To the Person Sitting in Darkness, The United States of Lyncherdom, The Czars Soliloquy, and The War Prayer are biting denunciations of European and American imperialism. Other political issues inspired articles and stories about the Jews, the notorious Dreyfus case, and vivisection. Twains increasingly unorthodox religious opinions are powerfully, often comically, expressed in Extracts from Adams Diary, Eves Diary, Eve Speaks, Adams Soliloquy, A Humane Word from Satan, What is Man? Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven, and Letters from the Earth.

Against the assault of laughter, he said, nothing can stand. Twains brilliant inventiveness continues to shine in such later comic masterpieces as Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences, Italian Without a Master, Hunting the Deceitful Turkey, and My First Lie and How I Got Out of It. A posthumous collection of proverbs and aphorisms (More Maxims of Mark) is included as an appendix.

The publishing history of every story, sketch, and speech in this volume has been thoroughly researched, and in each instance the most authoritative text has been reproduced. This collection also includes an extensive chronology of Twains complex life, helpful notes on the people and events referred to in his works, and a guide to the texts.
Дополнительное описание: Формат: 210 x 133
Дата издания: 1998
Страна: USA
Круг читателей: general
Вес: 680

Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1891-1910, Twain Mark