Mark Twains Helpful Hints for Good Li..., Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
Mark Twains Helpful Hints for Good Li..., Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
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Mark Twains Helpful Hints for Good Living
A Handbook for the Damned Human Race

Author: Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2012

Synopsis

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbookan eccentric etiquette guide for the human racecontains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twains private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twains personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twains characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on August 29, 2014

Manages to make Twain sound not-so-pithy and not-so-witty. And that must have taken serious effort. A collection Twain would not have approved of, I guess. No aphorisms here, just some famous quotes and some not-so-famous passages on everything from american food to toiletries, put together as a "han......more

Goodreads review by Onyango on September 29, 2014

Advice to those headed to heaven. Leave your dog outside, if heaven is by merit, your dog would go in and you would remain. I love Mark Twain......more

Goodreads review by Lubinka on November 26, 2018

Although this book is not intended so much as a manual of helpful hints, but rather as a compilation of humorous and insightful short stories, essays, and observations, it contains many helpful advice of the kind that I generously like to bestow on my innocent and unsuspecting friends who never seem......more

Goodreads review by Joel on October 20, 2008

Twain is the only fictional writer I like. This book is not a surprise in its humor, candidness, or poignancy from any of his other books. That is not a trite statement, those qualities, and many, many more are what make Twain the icon he is today.......more

Goodreads review by Daphne on January 14, 2016

There were some rather engaging parts in this. I adored the story of the naked bear acting. ;)......more

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