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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living : A Handbook for the Damned Human Race by Twain, Mark & Salamo, Lin & Fischer, Victor & Frank, Michael B. & Project, Bancroft Library. Mark Twain is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
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"This wonderful book illustrates precisely why we can never have enough Twain. His humor is timeless, his wisdom about all things without equal."--Ken Burns"Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living is a real discovery as well as a delight. It brings us fresh material from an old friend, and rediscovers great moments from the long shelves of his published writings. It's the best, most reliable collection of Mark Twain as social observer, moralist, and comic genius."--Bruce Michelson, author of Mark Twain on the Loose and Literary Wit"A delightful display of Mark Twain's wit and humor loosely tied together under the guise of an advice book. Containing some things old, some things new, some things borrowed (in parody), but nothing blue, this charming collection of old favorites and new releases will guide you through life's exigencies in fine spirits, if not in fine form. Twain's advice occasionally touches the sublime, but only in the form of the ridiculous. This is the perfect gift book for any aficionado of Mark Twain, any connoisseur of the risible, or any stuffed-shirt who needs to lighten up."--Gregg Camfield, author of The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain"Twain came to understa
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- Author
- Twain, Mark & Salamo, Lin & Fischer, Victor & Frank, Michael B. & Project, Bancroft Library. Mark Twain
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520242456
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (456 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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