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

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: print
xxvi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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:

Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Leslie Fiedler -- Introduction to Huckleberry Finn (1950) / T. S. Eliot -- Huck and Oliver (1953) / W. H. Auden -- Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity (1953) / Ralph Ellison -- Yarn-Spinner in the American Vein (1957) / Wallace Stegner -- Twain in the Slums (1959) / Mike Gold -- from Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes (1959) / Yan Bereznitsky -- from Question Is Significantly More Profound: A Letter to Charles Neider (1960) / Yan Bereznitsky -- from Mark Twain: Exposer of the "Dollar Empire" (1960) / Lao She -- Mark Twain and Sholem Aleichem (1963) / Edward Field -- from Mark Twain in America (1963) / Abel Startsev -- From An American Traveler's Dreams - Huckleberry Finn Who Goes to Hell (1966) / Kenzaburo Oe -- from True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970) / John Seelye -- Last Laugh (1978) / Robert Penn Warren -- Huck Finn, Alive at 100 (1984) / Norman Mailer -- from I Been There Before (1985) / David Carkeet -- from Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) / Chuck Jones -- Introduction to How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1996) / David Bradley -- Introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1996) / E. L. Doctorow -- Introduction to Mark Twain's Speeches (1996) / Hal Holbrook -- Introduction to 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead?: "Deliberate Lewdness" and the Lure of Immortality (1996) / Erica Jong -- Introduction to The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Reading Young, Reading Old (1996) / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996) / Toni Morrison -- Introduction to Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays (1996) / Gore Vidal -- Some Comments on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Kurt Vonnegut at the Age of Seventy-Two (1996) / Kurt Vonnegut -- from What's Up with Mad Mark Twain? (1996) / Ralph Wiley -- from Callus on My Soul (with Shelia P. Moss) (2000) / Dick Gregory -- What Hath Happened to "The War-Prayer"? (2006) / Ron Powers -- Is He Alive? (2008) / Michael Blakemore -- Money as an American Character and the Legacy of Permission: Or How Mark Twain Taught Me That It Was Okay to Talk About Money (2009) / Min Jin Lee -- America's Original Superstar (2008) / Roy Blount Jr.