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great writers on his life and works

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An edition of The Mark Twain anthology (2010)

The Mark Twain anthology

great writers on his life and works

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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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2010, Literary Classics of the United States, Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group
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Table of Contents

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
The 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
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
The 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
The 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.

Edition Notes

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

Published in
New York
Series
The Library of America -- 199s

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.409
Library of Congress
PS1338 .M294 2010, PS1331 .M37 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 492 p. :
Number of pages
492

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24790897M
Internet Archive
marktwainantholo0000unse
ISBN 13
9781598530650
LCCN
2009939907
OCLC/WorldCat
426803638

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