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008 730515s1962 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 _a 62014550
015 _aGB64-18624
035 _a(OCoLC)188843
040 _aLC
_beng
_cBD-DhUL
_dLC
_dANL
082 0 4 _a817
_bCLE
100 1 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910.
245 1 0 _aLetters from the earth /
_c[by] Mark Twain [pseud.] ; edited by Bernard DeVoto ; with a preface by Henry Nash Smith.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper & Row,
_c1962
300 _aix, 303 p. :
_c21 cm.
504 _a"Bibliographical note": p. 303.
505 0 _aLetters 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 : year of the world, 920 ; 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. (1909) -- The Gorky incident (1906) -- Simplified spelling -- Something about repentance (1908) -- From an English notebook. The Albert Memorial ; Old Saint Paul's ; The British Museum -- From the manuscript of "A tramp abroad" (1879) : the French and the Comanches -- From 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.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y20th century
_xBiography
700 1 _aDe Voto, Bernard Augustine,
_d1897-1955.
710 2 _aRouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
_5DLC
942 _2ddc
_cBK
999 _c191563
_d191563