How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897)[1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were previously published in magazines. In the essays, Twain describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors. The essays contained are the following:
- How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895).
- In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894).
- Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (July 1895).
- Travelling with a Reformer (16 December 1893).
- Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story (April 1894).
- Mental Telegraphy Again (September 1895).
- What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us (January 1895).
- A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget (first published in this book).
References edit
- ^ Merle De Vore Johnson (1910). A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain. Harper & Brothers. p. 78.
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Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays at Project Gutenberg
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays public domain audiobook at LibriVox- Mark Twain (1996). How to Tell a Story and Other Essays. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-510149-9.
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