Joseph Hopkins Twichell : the life and times of Mark Twain's closest friend / Steve Courtney

Author:: Courtney, Steve, 1948-
Published:: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xix, 331 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Preface: A man on the cusp of the modern -- Acknowledgments -- The crocodiles -- Eternity in the wind -- The soul streaming into the eyes and ears -- The old brick row -- The tall student -- City of dreams and shadows -- The sword of the Lord and Gideon -- A matter of feud -- Which is the dream? -- The heaped-up grave -- An arrow through me -- The wild humorist of the Pacific Slope -- Keene Flats -- The work to my very door -- Peru -- Problems of belief -- Sickles's counterrevolution -- Tramping -- Runaway horses -- He made me feel ridiculous -- Harmony and family -- The coming man and the uses of history -- The doctrine of total depravity -- Unsent letters.

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9780820330563 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820330566 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.

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