The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

Author:   Harold K. Bush, Jr. ,  Steve Courtney ,  Peter Messent
Publisher:   University of Georgia Press
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9780820350752


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Harold K. Bush, Jr. ,  Steve Courtney ,  Peter Messent
Publisher:   University of Georgia Press
Imprint:   University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9780820350752


ISBN 10:   0820350753
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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In this age of vanishing correspondence emails, texts, instant messages there is a real risk for posterity. Consider those unguarded moments of frankness, celebrations of joy, and confidential speculations shared only with the closest of friends. The demise of the handwritten letter is lamentable. In this exceptional book, readers eavesdrop on Sam Clemens and his closest friend Joe Twichell ( . . . you splendid old muggins! ) in real-time communications. The inside jokes, intimate confidences, hopes, fears, and tragedies are shared unvarnished between two young men who became fast friends and grew old together across four decades. The editors have done a superb job of presenting important context without overpowering the real content: the letters of love, respect, and affection for each other and each other's families in the setting of a rapidly changing world. A must read for anyone who has ever had a best friend.--Cindy Lovell, Executive Director, The Mark Twain House & Museum


Two friends talking. You get more of Mark Twain the unguarded person from these conversations between two friends than from the biographies. They traveled the footpaths of Europe together, their wives and children enriched their friendship, they could say what they wanted and know they'd get away with it. This is special.--Hal Holbrook


In this age of vanishing correspondence--emails, texts, instant messages--there is a real risk for posterity. Consider those unguarded moments of frankness, celebrations of joy, and confidential speculations shared only with the closest of friends. The demise of the handwritten letter is lamentable. In this exceptional book, readers eavesdrop on Sam Clemens and his closest friend Joe Twichell ('. . . you splendid old muggins!') in real-time communications. The inside jokes, intimate confidences, hopes, fears, and tragedies are shared unvarnished between two young men who became fast friends and grew old together across four decades. The editors have done a superb job of presenting important context without overpowering the real content: the letters of love, respect, and affection for each other and each other's families in the setting of a rapidly changing world. A must read for anyone who has ever had a best friend.--Cindy Lovell, Executive Director, The Mark Twain House & Museum


Two friends talking. You get more of Mark Twain the unguarded person from these conversations between two friends than from the biographies. They traveled the footpaths of Europe together, their wives and children enriched their friendship, they could say what they wanted and know they'd get away with it. This is special.--Hal Holbrook In this age of vanishing correspondence emails, texts, instant messages there is a real risk for posterity. Consider those unguarded moments of frankness, celebrations of joy, and confidential speculations shared only with the closest of friends. The demise of the handwritten letter is lamentable. In this exceptional book, readers eavesdrop on Sam Clemens and his closest friend Joe Twichell ( . . . you splendid old muggins! ) in real-time communications. The inside jokes, intimate confidences, hopes, fears, and tragedies are shared unvarnished between two young men who became fast friends and grew old together across four decades. The editors have done a superb job of presenting important context without overpowering the real content: the letters of love, respect, and affection for each other and each other's families in the setting of a rapidly changing world. A must read for anyone who has ever had a best friend.--Cindy Lovell, Executive Director, The Mark Twain House & Museum Although Clemens corresponded intimately and at length with a number of individuals, nowhere does he stand more revealed than in his letters to Joe Twichell. The voice that emerges in these pages--by turns lyrical, ebullient, wrathful, and achingly melancholic--offers a glimpse into the writer's truest, most candid self. As such, this collection is an invaluable addition to the field of Mark Twain studies.--Kerry Driscoll, University of Saint Joseph In this age of vanishing correspondence--emails, texts, instant messages--there is a real risk for posterity. Consider those unguarded moments of frankness, celebrations of joy, and confidential speculations shared only with the closest of friends. The demise of the handwritten letter is lamentable. In this exceptional book, readers eavesdrop on Sam Clemens and his closest friend Joe Twichell ('. . . you splendid old muggins!') in real-time communications. The inside jokes, intimate confidences, hopes, fears, and tragedies are shared unvarnished between two young men who became fast friends and grew old together across four decades. The editors have done a superb job of presenting important context without overpowering the real content: the letters of love, respect, and affection for each other and each other's families in the setting of a rapidly changing world. A must read for anyone who has ever had a best friend.--Cindy Lovell, Executive Director, The Mark Twain House & Museum


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Harold K. Bush is a professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of three books, including Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age. Peter Messent is the Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham and the author of several books, including Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships. Steve Courtney is the publicist and publications editor of the Mark Twain House. He is the author of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend and the co-editor (with Peter Messent) of The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story (both Georgia).

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