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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 199s.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Library Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by Putnam Group, c2010.Description: xxvi, 492 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598530658 :
  • 9781598530650
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Contents:
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 Twai
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 --
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Mark Twain," William Faulkner once observed, "was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." In this unique collection scores of these literary legatees from the U.S. and around the world take the measure of Twain and his genius, among them: José Martí, Rudyard Kipling, Theodor Herzl, George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Helen Keller, Jorge Luis Borges, Sterling Brown, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, Kenzaburo Oe, Robert Penn Warren, Ursula Le Guin, Norman Mailer, Erica Jong, Gore Vidal, David Bradley, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Min Jin Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others (including actor Hal Holbrook, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, stand-up comedians Dick Gregory and Will Rogers, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Barack Obama). Included are essays originally published in Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish that have not previously been available in English, as well as the work of several visual artists, such as James Montgomery Flagg (creator of the "Uncle Sam Wants You" poster), French playwright and artist Jean Cocteau, and Chuck Jones (of Bugs Bunny fame). Published to mark the centennial of Twain's death, this collection testifies to the enduring and continuing legacy of the man William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Twai

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 --

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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