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"Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory - and it's not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you'd expect to see Becky Thatcher. This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting, squaring off against angry bulls, or, in what may be the most flagrant flouting of Victorian convention, marrying other women." "This special edition brings together the best of Twain's stories about unconventional girls and women, from Eve as she names the animals in Eden to Joan of Arc to the transvestite farce of a young man named Alice from the Wapping district of London. Whatever they're doing - bopping boys with a baseball bat in "Hellfire Hotchkiss," treating the author to a life story and a dogsled ride in "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance," or sacrificing all for the sake of a horse, as in "A Horse's Tale"--These women and girls are surprising, provocative, and irresistibly entertaining in the great Twain tradition in which they now finally take their rightful place."--Jacket.
Girls --- Young women --- Humorous stories, American. --- American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor
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Humorous stories, American --- Comedy sketches --- Sketch comedy --- Comedy --- American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor
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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.
Humorous stories, American. --- Domestic fiction, American. --- Satire, American. --- Fables, American. --- American fables --- American satire --- American wit and humor --- American domestic fiction --- American fiction --- American humorous stories
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American humorous stories --- Amerikaanse humoristische verhalen --- Discours anglais, allocutions américaines, etc. --- Histoires humoristiques américaines --- Humoristische verhalen [Amerikaanse ] --- Humorous stories [American ] --- Redevoeringen, toespraken, enz. [Amerikaanse ] --- Speeches, addresses, etc. [American ] --- Humorous stories, American. --- Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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American humorous stories --- Amerikaanse humoristische verhalen --- Discours anglais, allocutions américaines, etc. --- Histoires humoristiques américaines --- Humoristische verhalen [Amerikaanse ] --- Humorous stories [American ] --- Redevoeringen, toespraken, enz. [Amerikaanse ] --- Speeches, addresses, etc. [American ] --- Humorous stories, American. --- Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent errors, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these corrupt editions and added errors of their own. It is the aim of the Iowa-California edition to strip away this accretion of error and present texts faithful to the author's intention. By comparing all the life-time version of Mark Twain's works, the editors are able to isolate the author's revisions from the printers and publishers' changes. The record of this comparison supplies not only the evidence for editorial decisions, but also the history of the author's efforts to shape his work. In addition, these volumes include previously uncollected work, work that has long been out of print, and such unpublished writing as related drafts, working notes, and marginalia. The texts are established at the Center for Textual Studies at the University of Iowa or at the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The costs for editorial work have been met by generous support from the Editing Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and other institutional and private donors. The edition is published by the University of California Press with financial assistance from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. All volumes are submitted to the Center for Editions of american Authors, or to its successor, the Committee for Scholarly Editions, for examination and approval
Adventure stories, American --- Boys --- -Humorous stories, American --- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) --- -American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- American adventure stories --- Children --- Males --- Young men --- Fiction --- Humorous stories, American --- American humorous stories --- Mississippi River --- Missouri --- Fiction. --- Adventure stories, American. --- Humorous stories, American. --- Sawyer, Tom --- Sawyer, Thomas --- Twain, Mark, --- american author. --- american authors. --- american literature. --- americana. --- authorial intention. --- classics. --- draft errors. --- famous author. --- fiction. --- humor. --- literary criticism. --- marginalia. --- mark twain. --- publisher errors. --- publishing. --- revised drafts. --- samuel clemens. --- satire. --- social commentary. --- textual studies. --- twain drafts. --- twain manuscripts. --- unpublished twain. --- working notes.
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Barth, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Humorous stories, American --- Sublime, The, in literature. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Paradox in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Barth, John, --- Comic, The, in literature --- -Paradox in literature --- Sublime, The, in literature --- Paradoxes in literature --- American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Paradox in literature --- Bart, Dz︠h︡on, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Barth, John (1930-....) --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation
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Hawkes, John, 1925 . Second Skin --- Hawkes, John, 1925 . The Beetle Leg --- Hawkes, John, 1925 . The Cannibal --- Hawkes, John, 1925 . The Goose on the Grave --- Hawkes, John, 1925 . The Lime Twig --- Hawkes, John, 1925 . The Owl --- Hawkes, John, 1925. Charivari --- Comic, The, in literature --- Humorous stories, American --- -American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Hawkes, John --- -Humor --- -History and criticism --- Hawkes, John, --- Hawkes, J. C. B. --- הוקס, ג׳ון, --- Criticism and interpretation
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Humorous stories, American --- American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Twain, Mark, --- Twain, Mark --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- تواين، مارک --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- Criticism and interpretation
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Aesthetics, American --- Boys in literature --- -Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) --- Humorous stories, American --- -American humorous stories --- American aesthetics --- Mississippi River --- -American aesthetics --- American humorous stories --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Twain, Mark --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- -In literature --- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Twain, Mark, --- Tvėn, Mark, --- Tuėĭn, Mark, --- Tuwayn, Mārk, --- Twayn, Mārk, --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo, --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū, --- Twain, Marek, --- Make Tuwen, --- Tuwen, Make, --- Make Teviin, --- Твен, Марк, --- Touain, Mark, --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, --- Conte, Louis de, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History. --- In literature. --- Tuvāyn, Mārk, --- تواين، مارک --- Tvāyn, Mārk, --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de
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