Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory-and it's not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you'd expect to see Becky Thatcher. This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting, squaring off against angry bulls, or, in what may be the most flagrant flouting of Victorian convention, marrying other women. This special edition...
Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory-and it's not the perfe...
"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years.
In "Mark Twain's Aquarium," John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a...
"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting frien...
What amount of pain is required to produce a terrorist? What happens when that terrorist becomes the master of sophisticated weapons - and uses them? What if that terrorist is immune to attack? How many millions will have to die before the President will place peace ahead of politics, and sit down to negotiate? What if he comes to the negotiating table with an empty hand? What if the terms for peace place a fearsome responsibility on all persons, from criminal to university professor? The answers must be found when the nation faces the ultimate terrorist, the one they call 'The Madman'.
What amount of pain is required to produce a terrorist? What happens when that terrorist becomes the master of sophisticated weapons - and uses them? ...
Governments are common to all societies, although their forms, goals, methods and intents vary widely. The government of the United States has rested lightly upon its citizens in the past, but this has been changing in the past century, and the rate of change has been increasing. These changes are impacting our freedoms, bypassing the Constitution and leading to basic modifications in our form of government. This small book explores a number (by no means exhaustive) of the problems, dangers and trends in the political scene. It bears heavily on the politicians, corruption and legalities of...
Governments are common to all societies, although their forms, goals, methods and intents vary widely. The government of the United States has rested ...
