The Mark Twain anthology great writers on his life and works
| Other Authors: | Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Library Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group,
c2010.
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| Series: |
Library of America ;
199 |
| Subjects: |
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.