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This book takes you across the full span of recorded history to examine the ways in which people and events forged the calendar that we have today. Starting with Stonehenge and the first written records of the year and the day by the Sumerians around 3500 B.C., astronomer Steel charts the calendar's ever-changing, erratic trajectory--from the Egyptians' reliance on the star Sirius to the numbering of the years linked to the celebration of Easter in...
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"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams ... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."--The Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected...
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In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.
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In 1873, Mark Twain wrote, with the collaboration of Charles Dudley Warner, his first novel, The Gilded Age. It was Twain who created the basic plot and characterization, and Twain who wrote major portions of the book - which he later clearly identified as his own. Despite its being a best seller in its day, the book has received little attention in recent years, and one of Twain's most memorable characters has been almost forgotten. Now, by using...
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