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Mark Twain.
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ISBN: 0710068131 0710068123 9780710068125 9780710068132 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul


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Mark Twain and the Community
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ISBN: 9780813162157 0813162157 9780813151304 0813151309 Year: 1970 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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Throughout his career Mark Twain viewed the relations between the individual and his community with mixed feelings, and this book explores both the ambiguities of Twain's attitude and their effect upon his fiction. In the earlier novels -- most notably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- the protagonist enjoys a dual position -- at liberty to follow his own inclinations while retaining his conventional place as a respected member of the community -- and the resolutions of these works are built upon this duality. Facing realities which the earlier fiction evaded, Twain in A

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