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Letters from the earth
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- Summary
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Sketches and pieces from Twain's lesser known works. First prepared in 1939 by Bernard DeVoto and now presented with his notes and introduction.
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- Creator
- Mark Twain ; edited by Bernard DeVoto ; with a preface by Henry Nash Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [First edition]
- New York : Harper & Row, [1962]
- Physical Details
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- ix, 303 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060144351, 9780060144357
- OCLC
- ocm00188843, ocm00188843
- "Bibliographical note": page 303.
- 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 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