The life & work of Mark Twain Part 1 of 2

Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Railton, Stephen, 1948-
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2002.
Series:Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
  • Needing no introduction?
  • From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain
  • The sense of Mark Twain's humor
  • Marketing Twain
  • Innocents abroad, I: going East
  • Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn
  • Roughing it going West
  • The lecture tours
  • The Whittier after dinner speech
  • Old times on the Mississippi
  • The adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • The performances of Tom Sawyer.