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Mark Twain's Civil War.
Had there been no Civil War, the eminent American author known as Mark Twain would likely have spent his life as Sam Clemens, the Mississippi River steamboat pilot. When the war came and the steamboats stopped running, Clemens served two weeks in the Missouri State Guard before he fled west to begin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Mark Twain's Civil War; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; NONFICTION; from Roughing It (1872); Mark Twain's First Civil War Autobiography (1877); from "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion" (1877); from Life on the Mississippi (1883); "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (1885); "An Author's Soldiering" (1887); "General Grant's Grammar" (1887); "How Twain Saved the Union" (1901); A Selection from Mark Twain's Autobiographical Dictations (1907); Albert Bigelow Paine, "The Soldier" (1912); Absalom C. Grimes, "Campaigning with Mark Twain" (1926); FICTION.
- Anonymous, "An Exchange of Prisoners" (1863)"Lucretia Smith's Soldier" (1864); "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract" (1870); from The Gilded Age (1873); "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" (1874); "A Curious Experience" (1881); Coda: Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) (c. 1900); Notes; Sources.