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The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. - New York : Library of America, 2010. - xxvi, 492 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - The Library of America ; 199s .

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

Twain Matters: A Sampler -- New Books (1869) / Memoranda: An Entertaining Article (1870) / Les Humoristes Américains: Mark Twain (The American Humorists: Mark Twain) (1872) / Mark Twain: Ein Amerikanischer "Humorist" (Mark Twain: An American "Humorist") (1880) / Mark Twain (1897) / Mark Twain: An Inquiry (1901) / Prólogo: Mark Twain, Cuentos Escogidos ( Prologue to Mark Twain: Selected Tales) (1903) / L'Umorismo Americano: Mark Twain (American Humor: Mark Twain) (1905) / Letter to Samuel L. Clemens (1907) / Books Bound in Red (1910) / Mark Twain (1910) / Mark Twain as Our Emissary (1910) / Mark Twain (1910) / Mark Twain (1910) / Mark Twain Protests (1916) / Mark Twain (1919) / H. L. Mencken -- Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain: Notes on the Eighth Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem's Death (1924) / Our Mark Twain (1929) / A Short Introduction to "Eve's Diary" (1931) / Una Vindicación de Mark Twain (A Vindication of Mark Twain) (1935) / Mark the Double Twain (1935) / The Negro in American Fiction (1937) / My Debt to Mark Twain (1937) / Mark Twain - the Licensed Jester (1943) / Introduction to The Portable Mark Twain (1946) / David Ross Locke -- Mark Twain -- Thérèse Bentzon -- Eduard Engel -- William Dean Howells -- Ángel Guerra -- Livia Bruni -- George Bernard Shaw -- Marina Tsvetaeva -- Johannes V. Jensen -- George Ade -- G. K. Chesterton -- Jesús Castellanos -- George Soule -- Maks Erik -- Helen Keller -- Lu Xun -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Theodore Dreiser -- Sterling Brown -- Grant Wood -- George Orwell -- Bernard DeVoto -- from from from from from from from from from from from from Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! (1948) / Introduction to Huckleberry Finn (1950) / Huck and Oliver (1953) / Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity (1953) / Yarn-Spinner in the American Vein (1957) / Twain in the Slums (1959) / Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes (1959) / The Question Is Significantly More Profound: A Letter to Charles Neider (1960) / Mark Twain: Exposer of the "Dollar Empire" (1960) / Mark Twain and Sholem Aleichem (1963) / Mark Twain in America (1963) / From An American Traveler's Dreams - Huckleberry Finn Who Goes to Hell (1966) / The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970) / Last Laugh (1978) / Leslie Fiedler -- T. S. Eliot -- W. H. Auden -- Ralph Ellison -- Wallace Stegner -- Mike Gold -- Yan Bereznitsky -- Yan Bereznitsky -- Lao She -- Edward Field -- Abel Startsev -- Kenzaburo Oe -- from from from from from

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.

9781598530650


Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. --Criticism and interpretation.


Humorous stories, American--History and criticism.

PS1338 / .M294 2010

AS 828.809 / M345

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