A skillful, and frequently hilarious, comparison of Mark Twain and the author, Richard Bissell. Part commentary and part autobiography, Bissell deftly interweaves family history, anecdotes, and career paths into an unforgettable linking of two outstanding authors and river boat buffs living almost a century apart.
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America’s Revolutionary War heroes caught in the spotlight by a great American novelist, humorist, and playwright. Come back stage and find out more about the events of the war and our leaders as the whole show is, ahem, un-costumed.
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4 weeks a New York Times bestseller. Is Quintus a man or a skeleton? After this photographer attempts to perfect X-ray film, something went terribly awry … he transforms from flesh to bone and back again without warning. Will he escape unharmed, or end up a pile of bones? Another satire blending charm and imagination.
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The first in a collection of three children's stories about rural life in Pittsburg, Iowa in the early 1900s. Based on the author's experiences on his grandparents' farm, each story wraps the reader in the humor, kindness, warmth, and simplicity of rural life in the Midwest.
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A collection of Thorne Smiths's poetry from the WW 1 Naval Reservist journal The Broadside as well as many submitted to The Smart Set, a literary magazine that gave a start to many up-and-coming authors. Others were written while Smith was hospitalized in France in 1918.
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