Life as I find it A treasury of Mark Twain rarities

Mark Twain, 1835-1910

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Published
New York : Cooper Square Press : Distributed by National Book Network 2000.
Language
English
Main Author
Mark Twain, 1835-1910 (-)
Other Authors
Charles Neider, 1915-2001 (-)
Edition
1st Cooper Square Press ed
Item Description
"Unabridged republication of the edition originally titled Mark Twain: life as I find it and first published in Garden City, New York in 1960"--T.p. verso.
Includes indexes.
Physical Description
xxxi, 411 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780815410270
  • Foreword: Mark Twain Uncensored
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Essays, Sketches, and Tales
  • Life as I Find It
  • The Facts in the Case of the Senate Doorkeeper
  • Female Suffrage
  • Private Habits of Horace Greeley
  • Ye Cuban Patriot: A Calm Inspection of Him
  • Last Words of Great Men
  • The Late Reliable Contraband
  • A Mystery Cleared Up
  • Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt
  • To the California Pioneers
  • The Wild Man Interviewed
  • About Smells
  • The Approaching Epidemic
  • Breaking It Gently
  • A Couple of Sad Experiences
  • Curious Relic for Sale
  • A Daring Attempt at a Solution of It
  • The European War
  • Favors from Correspondents
  • A General Reply
  • Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
  • "Hogwash"
  • Introductory to Memoranda
  • A Literary "Old Offender"
  • Map of Paris
  • A Memory
  • The Noble Red Man
  • Our Precious Lunatic
  • The "Present" Nuisance
  • The Reception at the President's
  • A Royal Compliment
  • The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
  • Unburlesquable Things
  • A Brace of Brief Lectures on Science
  • The Coming Man
  • Francis Lightfoot Lee
  • The Indignity Put Upon the Remains ...
  • One of Mankind's Bores
  • The Tone-Imparting Committee
  • John Camden Hotten
  • British Benevolence
  • Foster's Case
  • The Curious Republic of Gondour
  • Duncan of the Quaker City
  • Duncan Once More
  • The Sandwich Islands
  • A Boston Girl
  • The Omitted Chapter of The Prince and the Pauper
  • On the Philosophy of Shaving
  • A Tale for Struggling Young Poets
  • Smoking As Inspiration
  • Woman, God Bless Her!
  • Ah Sin, the Heathen Chinee
  • On Training Children
  • Remarkable Gold Mines
  • International Copyright
  • An Author's Soldiering
  • American Authors and British Pirates
  • The Art of Composition
  • A Kind-Hearted Druggist
  • A Love Song
  • Talk About Twins
  • James Hammond Trumbull
  • The Panama Railroad
  • The Pains of Lowly Life
  • A Defence of General Funston
  • The Yacht Races
  • Letter to Governor Francis
  • Concerning Copyright
  • The Czar's Soliloquy
  • John Hay and the Ballads
  • King Leopold's Soliloquy
  • A Visit to the Savage Club
  • The Suppressed Chapter of Life on the Mississippi
  • Part II. Selected Interviews
  • Political Views of a Humorist New York Herald, August 28, 1876
  • Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain New York Herald, August 17, 1890
  • "Of Course I Am Dying" New York Herald, June 6, 1897
  • Mark Twain Says He's Discouraged New York World, June 17, 1900
  • Mark Twain, the Greatest American Humorist, Returning Home, Talks at Length to the World New York World, October 14, 1900
  • Mark Twain Home, an Anti-Imperialist New York Herald, October 16, 1900
  • "My Impressions of America" New York World, October 21, 1900
  • Mark Twain Bearded in His New York Den by a Camera Fiend New York Herald, January 20, 1901
  • Mark Twain Would Convert Tammany Police New York Herald, October 14, 1901
  • "My First Vacation and My Last"--Mark Twain New York World, September 7, 1902
  • Mark Twain's Door Open to Burglars New York Herald, June 15, 1903
  • Mark Twain Would Kill Bosses by Third Party New York Herald, November 12, 1905
  • Mark Twain's Seventy Years New York American and Journal, November 26, 1905
  • Twain Calls Leopold Slayer of 15,000,000 New York Herald, December 3, 1905
  • Mark Twain Too Lazy for a United States Senator New York Herald, March 11, 1906
  • Mighty Mark Twain Overawes Marines New York Times, May 12, 1907
  • Mark Twain Tells the Secrets of Novelists New York American, May 26, 1907
  • Mark Twain Sails; Shiest Man Aboard New York American, June 9, 1907
  • Mark Twain Tells Sea Tales New York Sun, June 19, 1907
  • Mark Twain Home in Good Humor New York Times, July 23, 1907
  • Sources
  • Index of Titles
  • Index