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Author Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Title Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 Edited, with an introd., by Lewis Leary
Published Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 768 pages) illustrations, facsimiles, portraits
Series The Mark Twain papers
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain papers.
Contents INTRODUCTION; I. "FUSSING WITH BUSINESS" (December 1893February 1895); II. "As LONG AS THE PROMISE MUST BE MADE" (March 1895August 1896); III. "OUR UNSPEAKABLE DISASTER" (August 1896July 1897); IV. "YOU AND I ARE A TEAM" (July 1897May 1899); V. "THIS EVERLASTING EXILE" (June 1899August 1900); VI. "THIS ODIOUS SWINDLE" (October 1900June 1904); VII. "NOTHING AGREES WITH ME" (July 1904March 1908); VIII. "I WISH HENRY ROGERS WOULD COME HERE" (June 1908May 1909); AFTERWORD; APPENDIXES; A CALENDAR OF LETTERS; BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY; GENEALOGICAL CHARTS; INDEX
Summary "This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H.H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and - in private - long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht"--Publisher's website
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autobiography
bankruptcy
billiards
biography
business man
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classics
correspondence
epistolary
famous author
financial disaster
friendship
gender
hh rogers
humor
letters
literary celebrity
literary criticism
literary figures
male friendship
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memoir
pen pals
poker
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samuel clemens
satire
speaking tour
sports
wealth
yacht
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
HUMOR -- General.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 1840-1909.
Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990, editor.
ISBN 9780520905061
0520905067
0520014677
9780520014671