Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Kevin Durdle’s request to change the title of Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living Tuesday, September 29 2009.

Kevin Durdle changed the title of Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living Tuesday, September 29 2009.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living Tuesday, September 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mark Twain: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Kevin Durdle’s request to combine 3 books, including Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living, Saturday, August 29 2009.

Kevin Durdle submitted a request to combine 3 books, including Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living, Tuesday, August 11 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook-an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race-contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project. Illustrations: 36 b/w photographs

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living Thursday, July 16 2009.

• All through the first ten years of my married life I kept a constant and discreet watch upon my tongue while in the house, and went outside and to a distance when circumstances were too much for me and I was obliged to seek relief.