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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins (1838-1918)
Rubrique de classement : [Correspondance (anglais). 1868-1910]
Titre(s) : The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell [Texte imprimé] / edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent ; supplementary text by Peter Messent
Publication : Athens (Ga.) : the University of Georgia, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-447-[8] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L.
Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The
long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell - a Congregationalist minister of Hartford,
Connecticut - rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of
being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared
interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that, as in most things
about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment
of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner
at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had "got up to go at 9.30
PM, & never sat down again - but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out
- & I was willing - & so I only left at 11." This conversation continued, in various
forms, for forty-two years - in both men's houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda
roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men - one an inimitable
American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed
both narrative skill and wit - has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it
has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence;
of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in
his journals as the 'long full feast of talk" with his friend, whom he would always
call "Mark."--Jacket
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bush, Harold K. (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Courtney, Steve (1948-....). Éditeur scientifique
Messent, Peter Browning (1946-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Amis et relations
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780820350752. - ISBN 0820350753 (rel.). - ISBN 9780820350745 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45619039m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45619039
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Part 1. 1868-1871. First meeting (Hartford); the Twain-Olivia Langdon
courtship and marriage; the Buffalo residence ; Part 2. 1871-1891. Twain's Hartford
years ; Part 3. 1891-1900. Twain and his family as peripatetics; business failure;
the death of Susy; continued exile ; Part 4. 1901-1904. The return to America; Livy's
illness and death ; Part 5. 1904-1910. After Livy's death; the final years ; A brief
afterword ; Appendix 1. Undated or fragmentary correspondence ; Appendix 2. Four
further letters.
