(The Boys Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine Albert P...)
The Boys Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine Albert Paine was a late 19th and early 20th century American author who remains best known today for collaborating with Mark Twain on a number of books. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
(The Autobiography of a Monkey By Albert Bigelow Paine We ...)
The Autobiography of a Monkey By Albert Bigelow Paine We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
(This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before ...)
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
(The Arkansaw Bear by Albert Bigelow Paine Excerpt from Th...)
The Arkansaw Bear by Albert Bigelow Paine Excerpt from The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure Oh, 'twas down in the woods of the Arkansaw, And the night was cloudy and the wind was raw. And he didn't have a bed and he didn't have a bite, And if he hadn't fiddled he'd a travelled all night. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book: Being a continuation of the Stories about the Hollow Tree and the Deep Woods People
(The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book is a children's book of sh...)
The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book is a children's book of short stories written by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé. It was published by Harper & Brothers in 1910. The book contains the continued tales of the 'Coon, the 'Possum, and the Old Black Crow, who live in the Hollow Tree in the Deep Woods. These books contain pen-and-ink illustrations of the stories. The general setting of this book is 'the story teller' who sits in a rocking chair in front of the old fireplace, with the 'Little Lady' sitting on his lap as he smokes a pipe and tells the old stories of the Hollow Tree Folk. All the stories in this book are stories told by the various characters when there is a big snow storm and they get snowed in. To pass the time they tell stories. There are two editions of this book. Both have an embossed picture on the front of Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Turtle at the door to the hollow tree being greeted by Mr. Crow. Both editions have a dark green background, with white snow and black outlines. The difference between the editions is that one has an orange sky in the background, and the other does not. Includes a brief biography of the Author
Mark Twain: A Biography, 4 volumes (1912) by Albert Bigelow Paine (ILLUSTRATED): the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was ...)
Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humor, and verse.Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when one year old. From early childhood until early adulthood, Paine lived in the village of Xenia in southern Illinois; here he received his schooling. His home in Xenia is still standing. At the age of twenty, he moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold out in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life in Europe, including France where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. This work was so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French governmen
Albert Bigelow Paine was an American author. He was a writer of light fiction for children and adults and also a biographer.
Background
Albert Bigelow was born on July 10, 1861 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Samuel Estabrook Paine, a Vermont farmer and storekeeper, and Mercy Coval (Kirby) Paine, of South Dartmouth, Massachussets, daughter of a seafaring family. He had three older sisters and one brother. When he was a year old the family moved to Bentonsport, Iowa, where the father owned a store and a farm, and whence he left for the Civil War. After the war Paine's family moved to Xenia, Illinois.
Education
Albert attended a one-room school in Xenia, Illinois until he was fifteen.
Career
In 1880 Albert Bigelow Paine left home and he went to St. Louis and learned photography. For three years he tramped through the South with his camera, doing portrait work, then he established himself as a dealer in photographic supplies at Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine had begun writing when only eighteen, stimulated, as he later recalled, by the example of a boyhood friend. Some of his verses were printed in the New York Weekly and other family papers. He received his first pay for a contribution on his twentieth birthday. During the following years he continued to write, turning to humorous stories and sketches while at Fort Scott. In 1895, encouraged, it is said, by the fact that Richard Harding Davis had accepted a story of his for Harper's Weekly, he moved to New York City.
His early years there were spent in editorial work on humorous periodicals, which brought him into close association with John Kendrick Bangs and R. K. Munkittrick. A publishing venture that foundered furnished material for The Bread Line (1900). He was editing the Sunday children's page for the New York Herald when, in 1899, he was asked to develop a contributor's department for St. Nicholas. Here he originated, and for ten years edited, the "St. Nicholas League, " under whose auspices many later famous writers made their literary debuts.
Paine's first book was Rhymes by Two Friends (1893), written in collaboration with William Allen White. Essentially, however, Paine was a biographer. His first biography, and the book which established his reputation, was Th. Nast, His Period and His Pictures (1904). There followed two minor books about men of action: A Sailor of Fortune: Personal Memoirs of Captain B. S. Osborn (1906), which was "set down from the lips of the narrator, " and Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform (1909), which carried an enthusiastic letter from Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1901 Paine had met Mark Twain, who soon after selected him as his official biographer, making him a constant companion and confidant until his death in 1910. Paine's Mark Twain, A Biography (3 vols. , 1912) was warmly received; upon it he later based The Boys' Life of Mark Twain (1916) and A Short Life of Mark Twain (1920). He also edited Mark Twain's Letters (1917), Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924), and Mark Twain's Notebook (1935). In addition Paine wrote the authorized biography of the business tycoon Theodore N. Vail, In One Man's Life (1921), and of the banker George Fisher Baker (privately printed, 1925). Later, however, he turned down another such commission, at an enormous sum, being unable to admire the subject; instead he made his last important effort the biography of a distinguished actress, Life and Lillian Gish (1932).
Meanwhile Paine had given a number of years of travel and study abroad to his Joan of Arc, Maid of France (1925), for which he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. This work developed out of Mark Twain's interest in the Maid, but it was strictly factual in its method and included extensive quotations from fifteenth-century documents. Paine learned old French to write the book, and he wrote much of it in the localities described, all of which he photographed.
As executor, he angered many by refusing to give anyone access to the Mark Twain papers during his lifetime. As biographer, according to Dixon Wecter (in Sam Clemens of Hannibal, 1952) and others, Paine was inaccurate and incomplete on a number of counts in his record of Mark Twain's earlier life, but these instances are not more numerous than one would expect of a writer working at his distance of time and with his resources. Paine was not a scientifically trained editor and historian, and like most of his nineteenth-century predecessors he permitted himself a certain amount of bowdlerizing, in editing Mark Twain's letters and elsewhere, to eliminate indelicate, unflattering, or conceivably libelous statements. He also altered punctuation, spelling, and syntax to conform to his conception of standard usage. It is possible to defend him only to the extent of saying that he understood Mark Twain as no writer who knows him only from books can ever hope to understand him, and he knew too that to place some of Mark Twain's wildly exaggerated statements before the uninitiated reader would result in serious misunderstanding.
During his later years he also had before him what he considered the absurd misinterpretation of Mark Twain's character and career which Van Wyck Brooks perpetrated in The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920), and he did not care to encourage any more books like that. For all this, he could be generous to younger scholars in the field. His work on Mark Twain may be supplemented or corrected by later investigators, but it will remain indispensable to serious students. He made his home in Connecticut, but wintered in Florida. He died at New Smyrna, Florida, of a heart ailment on April 9, 1937.
Achievements
Albert Bigelow Paine was best known for his close connection with Mark Twain. He was the author of the four-volume "Mark Twain: A Biography" (1912), as well as several travel books, children’s books, and other biographies.
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Views
Quotations:
“Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere”.
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us".
Membership
Albert Bigelow Paine was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Connections
On June 3, 1885, Albert Bigelow Paine married Wilhelmina Schultz of Fort Scott, but the union was short-lived. Later, on August 21, 1892, he married Dora Locey, of Lamar, Missouri. They had four children who survived infancy: Louise Kirby, Frances Bigelow, Eleanor Temple, and Joy.
