Mark Twain''s Correspondence With Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909

List of contents

Abbreviations
Introduction

I. "Fussing with Business" (December 1893-February 1895)
II. "As Long as the Promise Must Be Made" (March 1895-August 1896)
III. "Our Unspeakable Disaster" (August 1896-July 1897)
IV. "You and I Are a Team" (July 1897-May 1899)
V. "This Everlasting Exile" (June 1899-August 1900)
VI. "This Odious Swindle" (October 1900-June 1904)
VII. "Nothing Agrees with Me" (July 1904-March 1908)
VIII. "I Wish Henry Rogers Would Come Here" (June 1908-May 1909)

Afterword
Appendixes
A Calendar of Letters
Biographical Directory
Genealogical Charts
Index

Summary

Features a collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers. This book reveals the story of Samuel Clemens's business affairs and dealings with publishers. It documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H H Rogers.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Leary, Mark Twain, Twain Mark
• Assisted by: Lewis Leary (Editor), Leary Lewis (Editor), Lewis Leary (Introduction), Leary Lewis (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1969
• EAN: 9780520014671
• ISBN: 978-0-520-01467-1
• No. of pages: 804
• Series: Mark Twain Papers; Mark Twain Papers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form