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    1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
    1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
    1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
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    1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateJan 1, 1973
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humorist and writer, who is best known for his enduring novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has been called the Great American Novel. 

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    • 5/5
      This is an hysterically funny little story by Mark Twain. Queen Elizabeth I is having some people over and all of a sudden there is a great noisy and smelly fart in the room. The Queen goes around the room asking who did it and finally finds the culprit who apologizes that it is so puny. At one point where no one has admitted the deed the Queen exclaims, "Hath it come that a fart shall far itself ?. There is also some sexual double entendre for a few more laughs. I still laugh out loud every time I read it.
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      Have you been searching for a courtly, Elizabethan dialog on farts and sex with a really broad dirty joke thrown in for good measure? Then this is the booklet you've been looking for!Otherwise... well at least it's short.
    • 2/5
      The introductory essay in this book is far more interesting than the story it is about.
    • 2/5
      The story itself, is entertaining. Lots of words on farts and farting. Humorous, but very brief.I ordered this on Amazon, and was very disappointed. My copy was out of order! After page 24, the page order jumps all over the place, often in a backwards order! Shoddy work.The first 27 pages of this book are background! And the last bit is about the work itself. So, there is approximately 7 pages to the tale. Do yourself a favor - find it on the internet and save your money.

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    1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain

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    Title: 1601

           Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

    Author: Mark Twain

    Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #3190]

    Last updated: October 30, 2012

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1601 ***

    Produced by David Widger

    1601

    Conversation as it was

    by the Social Fireside

    in the Time of the Tudors

    By Mark Twain

    Contents

    INTRODUCTION

    Born irreverent, scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, —like all other people I have ever known or heard of—I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of. —[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine]

    Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, O that we had a Rabelais! Mark impishly and anonymously—submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the bad boy of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy. Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark's make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world.

    WHO WROTE 1601?

    The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.] 'Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.' For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed. In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90's, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. Ball's original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain.

    Many people, said Reedy, thought the thing was done by Field and attributed, as a joke, to Mark Twain. Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow—not hard and bright and bitter—to be Eugene Field's. Reedy's opinion hits off the fundamental difference between these two great humorists; one half suspects that Reedy was thinking of Field's French Crisis.

    But Twain first claimed his bantling from the fog of anonymity in 1906, in a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Orr, librarian of Case Library, Cleveland. Said Clemens, in the course of his letter, dated July 30, 1906, from Dublin, New Hampshire:

    The title of the piece is 1601. The piece is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two others, and is not, as John Hay mistakenly supposes, a serious effort to bring back our literature and philosophy to the sober and chaste Elizabeth's time; if there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it. I hasten to assure you that it is not printed in my published writings.

    TWITTING THE REV. JOSEPH TWICHELL

    The circumstances of how 1601 came to be written have since been officially revealed by Albert Bigelow Paine in 'Mark Twain, A Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).

    1601 was written during the summer of 1876 when the Clemens family had retreated to Quarry Farm in Elmira County, New York. Here Mrs. Clemens

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