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Mark Twain's Civil War
Title:
Mark Twain's Civil War
Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Uniform Title:
Works. Selections. 2007
Publication Information:
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Physical Description:
220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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).
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ISBN:
9780813124742
Format :
Book