The Mark Twain anthology : great writers on his life and works / edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.

Series:

Library of America ; 199s.

The Library of America ; 199s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Library Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group, [2010]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1598530658 :

9781598530650

OCLC:

426803638