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Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living a handbook for the damned human race

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family...

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Other Authors: Salamo, Lin (Editor), Fisher, Victor, 1942- (Editor), Frank, Michael B. (Editor)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, p2012.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Conduct of life > Quotations, maxims, etc.
Conduct of life > Literary collections.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Quotations.
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Summary:Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook--an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race--contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life.
Item Description:Compact disc.
"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking."-- Container.
Physical Description:4 sound discs (4.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781455153541
1455153540
Author Notes:Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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