{"product_id":"mark-twains-letters-volume-5-mark-twain-9780520208223","title":"Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5: 1872-1873 Volume 9","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"Livy darling, it was flattering, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, tonight, to have the nation's honored favorite, the Lord High Chancellor of England, in his vast wig \u0026amp; gown, with a splendid, sword-bearing lackey, following him \u0026amp; holding up his train, walk me arm-in-arm through the brilliant assemblage, \u0026amp; welcome me with all the enthusiasm of a girl, \u0026amp; tell me that when affairs of state oppress him \u0026amp; he can't sleep, he always has my books at hand \u0026amp; forgets his perplexities in reading them!\" (10 November 1872)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn his first trip to England to gather material for a book and cement relations with his newly authorized English publishers, Samuel Clemens was astounded to find himself hailed everywhere as a literary lion. America's premier humorist had begun his long tenure as an international celebrity. Meanwhile, he was coming into his full power at home. \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e continued to produce impressive royalties and his new book, \u003ci\u003eRoughing It\u003c\/i\u003e, was enjoying great popularity. In newspaper columns he appeared regularly as public advocate and conscience, speaking on issues as disparate as safety at sea and political corruption. Clemens's personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria. Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 309 letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they are supplemented by genealogical charts of the Clemens and Langdon families, a transcription of the journals Clemens kept during his 1872 visit to England, book contracts, his preface to the English edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e, contemporary photographs of family and friends, and a gathering of all newly discovered letters written between 1865 and 1871. This volume is the fifth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted, and the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as \u003ci\u003eThe Mark Twain Papers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorks of Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520208226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520208223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.34w x 2.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1997 pg. 630\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1997 pg. 88","brand":"Mark Twain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076061556991,"sku":"9780520208223","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55b260bf-dc23-4404-8913-eb857d97e394.jpg?v=1685462955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mark-twains-letters-volume-5-mark-twain-9780520208223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}