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

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) / 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) / Last Laugh (1978) /

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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