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The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life an...

The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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Full title

The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Library Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group, c2010.

Call Numbers

N810.8003/2

Record Identifier

74VKd35g4Xmb

MMS ID

991019940889702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxvi, 492 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents

Twain Matters: A Sampler -- from New Books (1869) / David Ross Locke -- Memoranda: An Entertaining Article (1870) / Mark Twain -- Les Humoristes Américains: Mark Twain (The American Humorists: Mark Twain) (1872) / Thérèse Bentzon -- Mark Twain: Ein Amerikanischer "Humorist" (Mark Twain: An Americ...

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 S...

Publication information

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Library Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group, c2010.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

c2010.

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Scope and Contents

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.

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Full title

The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

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Notes

General note

The Library of America ; 199s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2010.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N810.8003/2

Record Identifier

74VKd35g4Xmb

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKd35g4Xmb

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ISBN

9781598530650

1598530658 :

DDC

818.409

MMS ID

991019940889702626

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