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Letters from the earth : uncensored writings / Mark Twain ; edited by Bernard DeVoto.

by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

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Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, c1962.

American wit and humor -- 19th century

9780060518653 (pbk.)

0060518650 (pbk.)

1st Perennial Classics ed.

ix, 317, [2] p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1962.

"First HarperPerennial edition published 1991."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]).

Foreword / by Henry Nash Smith. -- Letters from the Earth. -- Papers of the Adam family: Extract from Methuselah's diary ; A later extract from Methuselah's diary ; Extract from Eve's autobiography ; Passage from Eve's autobiography ; The world in the year 920 after creation ; Two fragments from a suppressed book called "Glances at history" or "Outlines of history" ; Extract from Shem's diary of 920 A.C. -- Letter to the Earth. -- A cat-tale. -- Cooper's prose style. -- Official report to the I.I.A.S. -- The Gorky incident. -- Simplified spelling. -- Something about repentance. -- From an English notebook: The Albert Memorial ; Old Saint Paul's ; The British Museum. -- From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad": the French and the Comanches. -- From an unfinished burlesque of books on etiquette: At the funeral ; At a fire ; Visiting cards. -- The damned human race: Was the world made for man? ; In the animals' court ; Zola's La terre ; The intelligence of God ; The lowest animal. -- The great dark.

De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955.

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