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This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most
revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind
to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three
daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets.
These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in
the period of its flourishing.
Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the
early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew
under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire
household. His record of the childrens' sayings--"Small
Foolishnesses"--is next, followed by the related manuscript "At the
Farm." Also included are selections from Livy's 1885 diary and an
authoritative edition of Susy's biography of her father, written
when she was a teenager. Newly edited from the original
manuscripts, this anthology is a unique record of a fascinating
family.
The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the
first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published
in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his
works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great
humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and
completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it
chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily
dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March
1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the
end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford
University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt, founding numerous
clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous
about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays; relaxing in Bermuda;
observing (and investing in) new technologies. The Autobiography's
"Closing Words" movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on
Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously
unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript," Mark Twain's caustic
indictment of his "putrescent pair" of secretaries and the havoc
that erupted in his house during their residency. Fitfully
published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth
century, Autobiography of Mark Twain has now been critically
reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read.
Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the
complete Autobiography emerges as a landmark publication in
American literature. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor
Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B Frank, Amanda
Gagel, Sharon K Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M Ohge.
Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant
bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the
centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Published to
rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of
Twain's career. It captures his authentic and unsuppressed voice,
speaking clearly from the grave and brimming with humor, ideas, and
opinions. The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark
Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private
and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor
and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across the contemporary
scene. He shares his views on writing and speaking, his
preoccupation with money, and his contempt for the politics and
politicians of his day. Affectionate and scathing by turns, his
intractable curiosity and candor are everywhere on view. Editors:
Benjamin Griffin and Harriet E. Smith Associate Editors: Victor
Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick
The history plays of the late 16th century are shown as neither a
Shakespearean nor an Elizabethan invention, but as a development of
medieval drama. Two overlapping areas of English historical drama
are examined in this study. The first is the large group of plays
dramatising the lives of powerful people in the past of the English
nation (native-subject drama), from the end ofthe fourteenth
century to the end of the sixteenth, and the second is the select
group of these plays produced in the 1580s, at the height of their
flourishing. Griffin charts the development of historical drama
from the Mass andSaint plays on Thomas Becket, through the
Reformation and its legacy, to the later history plays, showing
that the history play is neither Shakespeare's nor an Elizabethan
invention, but has its roots in medieval drama. The use made by
Shakespeare and Marlowe of the various types of historical drama -
the sacrificial, the festive and the formless genealogical - is
discussed, and the decline of the history play examined, reviewing
and amending critical explanations of the extinction of the
genre.BENJAMIN GRIFFIN was educated at the University of
California, Berkeley, and Cambridge University.
Reagan's War Stories examines the relationship between Ronald
Reagan, the public and popular culture. From an overview of
Reagan's youth and the pulp fiction he consumed, we get a sense of
the future president's good/evil outlook. Carrying that over into
Reagan's reading and choices as president, Griffin situates
narrative at the center of Reagan's political formation and
leadership providing a compelling account of both Reagan's life,
his presidency, and a lens into non-traditional strategy
formulation. Author Ben Griffin tells three stories about an
American president who ushered in the end of the Cold War. A survey
of Reagan's youth and the fiction he consumed and created as an
announcer and actor, reveals how the future president's worldview
developed. A look at the rise of fiction and popular culture rife
with pro-Americanism in the 1980s details a uniquely symbiotic
relationship between the chief executive and popular culture in
framing the Cold War as a struggle with an "Evil Empire" in the
Soviet Union. Finally, Griffin outlines how presidential
personality and reading preferences shaped President Reagan's
pursuit of the "Star Wars" initiative and belief in the
transformative combination of freedom and technology. Griffin
demonstrates that novels by Tom Clancy, Louis L'Amour, and science
fiction influenced Reagan's view of 1980s geopolitics. His
identification with fiction led Ronald Reagan to view European Cold
War issues with more empathy but harmed the president's
policymaking when the narrowness of his reading led him to apply a
white-hat/black-hat framework that did not match the reality of
conflict in Latin America. Reagan treated fictional portrayals
seriously, believing they shaped public views and offered valid
ways to think through geo-political issues. Seeking to shape the
reading habits of the public, his administration sought to
highlight authors who shared his worldview like Tom Clancy, Louis
L'Amour, and Allen Drury over other popular writers like Robert
Ludlum and John Le Carre who portrayed the Cold War in less stark
moral terms. The administration's favored popular authors in turn
intentionally incorporated Reagan-era policies into their work to
advocate for them through fiction, thus reaching a broader audience
than via official government releases and speeches. Showing how
Reagan used narrative as both a consumer and a communicator,
Griffin notes that Reagan identified with certain stories and they
shaped him as a political leader and later and influenced his
approach to complex issues. When handled deftly, incorporating
fiction created a common language across the administration and
provided a way to convey messages to the masses in a memorable
fashion.
Title: Whig and Tory: as it is acted at the theatre in
Lincolns-Inn-Fields: a comedy.Author: Benjamin GriffinPublisher:
Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04751400CollectionID:
CTRG04-B336PublicationDate: 17200101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 87, 1] p
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preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
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++++British LibraryT066309Anonymous. By Benjamin Griffin. Format: 8
in 4's.London: printed for J. Sackfield, and J. Stagg; and sold by
J. Morphew, 1717. 28p.; 8
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pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at
Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a
Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain
published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in
the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this told what he did (or, in his
own words, why he "didn't do anything") in the war; but the article
was criticized as disingenuous, and it did little to address a
growing curiosity about the nature of his brief military service.
The complex political situation in Missouri during the early months
of the war and Twain's genius for transforming life into fiction
have tended to obstruct historical understanding of "The Private
History"; interpretations of Samuel Clemens's enthusiastic
enlistment, sedulous avoidance of combat, and abandonment of the
rebellion have ranged from condemnation to celebration. Aided by
Twain's notes and correspondence- transcribed and published here
for the first time-Benjamin Griffin of UC Berkeley's Mark Twain
Project offers a new and cogent analysis, particularly of Clemens's
multiple revisions of his own war experience. A necessity for any
Twain bookshelf, Mark Twain's Civil War sheds light on a great
writer's changeable and challenging position on the deadliest of
American conflicts.
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