Mark Twain's book of animals
Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain's career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for animals. What may surprise even longtime readers and fans is that Twain was an early and ardent animal welfare advocate, the most prominent American of his day to take up that cause. Edited an
Anecdotes
1 online resource (x, 325 p.).
9780520944480, 9781282361065, 9780520271524, 9786612361067, 0520944488, 1282361066, 0520271521, 6612361069
1298206540
Print version:
Part 1. 1850s and 1860s : Bugs! ; Cruelty to animals I ; Jim Smiley and his jumping frog ; Fitz Smythe's horse ; Cruelty to animals II ; The pilgrim ; The dogs of Constantinople ; Syrian camels I ; The remarkable "Jericho" ; Pilgrims on horseback ; Arabs and their steeds
Part 2. 1870s and 1880s : The cayote, allegory of want ; With a flash and a whiz ; Syrian camels II ; The genuine Mexican plug ; The retired milk horse ; An invention to make flies curse ; Peter and the pain-killer ; The pinch-bug and the poodle ; Bugs and birds and Tom in the morning ; A cat-tale ; The presumptuous ravens ; Birds with a sense of humor ; The idiotic ant ; Cock-fight in New Orleans ; The Bricksville loafers ; A prescription for universal peace
Part 3. 1890s-1910 : Letters from a dog to another dog explaining and accounting for Man ; The phenomenal flea ; Huck kills a bird ; The bird with the best grammar ; Ants and the true religion ; The sailors and the St. Bernard ; Man's place in the animal world ; The marvelous moa ; The inimitable ornithorhynchus ; The laughing jackass of Adelaide ; The phosphorescent sea-serpent ; The independent-minded magpie ; The bird of birds ; The deadliest song known to ornithology ; The pious chameleon ; A pocketful of bat ; Hunting the deceitful turkey ; Letter to the London Anti-Vivisection Society ; The victims ; Extracts from Adam's diary, translated from the original MS ; Autobiography of Eve ; Rosa and the crows ; Assassin ; The jungle discusses Man ; The bee ; "Was the world made for Man?" ; A dog's tale ; Flies and Russians ; Eve's diary, translated from the original ; The supremacy of the house fly ; Mrs. Clemens corners the market in flies ; The Edisons of the animal world ; A horse's tale ; Man and the other animals ; The president hunts a crow ; The time I got an elephant for Christmas ; Little Bessie would assist Providence ; Letters from the Earth
Afterword
The Mark Twain Project is a research and editorial project housed within the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
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