Mark Twain's 1601


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This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.




1601


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"1601," wrote Mark Twain, "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 ... If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it." 1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court about farting and a variety of sexual peccadillos, narrated disapprovingly and sanctimoniously by the Queen's Cup-Bearer, an eyewitness at "the Social Fireside."







Mark Twain's "1601"


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"1601"


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Mark Twain Classics: 1601


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The diarist describes a conversation in the presence of the queen between various famous Elizabethans during which one of the company passes gas: "In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore."




Conversation by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors


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"Conversation by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors" from Mark Twain. American author and humorist (1835-1910).