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The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Added Author).

Summary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598530650
Physical Description: xxvi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Literary Classics of the United States, [2010]
Distributor: Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group.
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-489) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Twain Matters: A Sampler -- from New Books (1869) / David Ross Locke -- Memoranda: An Entertaining Article (1870) / Mark Twain -- from Les Humoristes Américains: Mark Twain (The American Humorists: Mark Twain) (1872) / Thérèse Bentzon -- from Mark Twain: Ein Amerikanischer "Humorist" (Mark Twain: An American "Humorist") (1880) / Eduard Engel -- from Mark Twain (1897) / Eduard Engel -- Mark Twain on the Mississippi (1883) / Lafcadio Hearn -- from Escenas Norteamericanas (North American Scenes) (1884, 1890) / José Martí -- from Mark Twain (1884) / Henry Gauthier-Villars -- Mark Twain's Latest (1890) / Hamlin Garland -- An Interview with Mark Twain (1890) / Rudyard Kipling -- On the Art of Mark Twain (1891) / Andrew Lang -- from Mark Twain in Paris (1894) / Theodor Herzl -- Mark Twain: An Inquiry (1901) / William Dean Howells -- from Prólogo: Mark Twain, Cuentos Escogidos ( Prologue to Mark Twain: Selected Tales) (1903) / Ángel Guerra -- from L'Umorismo Americano: Mark Twain (American Humor: Mark Twain) (1905) / Livia Bruni -- Letter to Samuel L. Clemens (1907) / George Bernard Shaw -- Books Bound in Red (1910) / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Mark Twain (1910) / Johannes V. Jensen -- Mark Twain as Our Emissary (1910) / George Ade -- Mark Twain (1910) / G. K. Chesterton -- from Mark Twain (1910) / Jesús Castellanos -- Mark Twain Protests (1916) / George Soule -- from Mark Twain (1919) / H. L. Mencken -- from Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain: Notes on the Eighth Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem's Death (1924) / Maks Erik -- Our Mark Twain (1929) / Helen Keller -- from A Short Introduction to "Eve's Diary" (1931) / Lu Xun -- Una Vindicación de Mark Twain (A Vindication of Mark Twain) (1935) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Mark the Double Twain (1935) / Theodore Dreiser -- from Negro in American Fiction (1937) / Sterling Brown -- My Debt to Mark Twain (1937) / Grant Wood -- Mark Twain - the Licensed Jester (1943) / George Orwell -- from Introduction to The Portable Mark Twain (1946) / Bernard DeVoto --