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."




1601 (annotated)


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"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]




1601


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Mark Twain's 1601


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This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.




Mark Twain's Date 1601


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1601


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Date, 1601: A short, ribald parody of Elizabethan England, written as a conversation between Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Bacon, and others.







Mark Twain's "1601"


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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."




1601, Or; Conversation As It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors


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1601; Or, Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors is the short risqu� story Twain originally published anonymously in 1880. The writing is that of an extract from the diary of Queen Elizabeth I's hand maidens. Intended as satire, it has been noted as, "the most famous piece of pornography in American literature." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.