Native Commissioner " Ruth Finnegan Almost Single-Handedly

" Ruth Finnegan Almost Single-Handedly Created the Field of Ethnography of Language

Funny and Strange

With a Variety of Related Activities

the Final Chapter Provides Up-To-Date Analysis of the Recent Critical Reception of Twain's Writing

His Storm-Wrecked Yacht

Native Commissioner " Ruth Finnegan Almost Single-HandedlySam Jameson, Eight Years Old at the Time of His Father George's Death, Decides, Some Forty Years Later, to Go Through the Box of His Father's Papers Which His Mother Had Passed on to Him. in Trying to Piece Together the Life of a Parent He Never Really Knew, Sam Discovers a Sensitive, Inherently Kind but Insecure Man. George Has Seemingly Spent His Working Life As a Native Commissioner Conscientiously Carrying Out His Duties, but Has Never Quite Been