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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I didn't expect much from this collection of writing about Twain, so I was pleasantly surprised by almost every piece. I particularly enjoyed a feature article by 25-year-old journalist Rudyard Kipling, who tracked Twain down at a relative's house in Elmira, New York, and got an impromptu two-hour interview; Helen Keller's vivid description of being a houseguest of Twain's when she was 14; an excerpt from David Carkeet's "I Been There Before," in which Mark Twain (catching a ride on Halley's Comet) returns to earth in 1985; David Bradley's moving memoir of how reading Twain helped him navigate the currents of racial politics to become a writer; and essays by E. L. Doctorow, Hal Holbrook, Erica Jong, Ursula K. Le Guin, Toni Morrison, and Gore Vidal. These last six, among others, were written as introductions to books in the anthology editor Shelley Fisher Fishkin's The Oxford Mark Twain, which included facsimile editions of all of Twain's books that were printed in his lifetime. (I used to own this 29-book collection, and do I miss it!) I'd go so far as to call "The Mark Twain Anthology" indispensable to anyone who's read several books of Twain's and considers himself or herself a fan or even an amateur scholar, and maybe even for those who have only read Huckleberry Finn and have always wondered what else is remarkable about Twain. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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