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Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0826266274 9780826266279 9780826218025 0826218024 Year: 2008 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher.


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Cosmopolitan Twain
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ISBN: 0826266657 9780826266651 082621827X 9780826218278 Year: 2008 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"From New York City to Vienna to the suburban utopia of Harford, Twain spent most of his life in an urban environment, generating writings that marked America's movement into the twentieth century. Rather than the nostalgic voice of America's rural post, Twain was a visionary of a cosmopolitan future"--Provided by publisher.


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Roughing It.
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ISBN: 1283283875 9786613283870 0520948068 9780520948068 0520268172 9781283283878 6613283878 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.


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The jester and the sages : Mark Twain in conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
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ISBN: 0826272703 9780826272706 9780826219527 0826219527 Year: 2011 Publisher: Columbia [Mo.] ; London : University of Missouri Press,


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Mark Twain's Which was the dream?
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ISBN: 1282382969 9786612382963 0520905059 9780520905054 0520012852 9780520012851 Year: 1968 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur and he experiences a nightmarish time of failure. He clutches at what may be a saving thought: perhaps he is indeed living in a nightmare from which he will awaken to his former felicity. But there is also the possibility that what seems a dream of disaster may be the actuality of his life. The question is the one asked by the titles that he gave to two of his manuscripts: "Which Was the Dream?" and "Which Was It?" He posed a similar question in 1893: "I dreamed I was born, and grew up, and was a pilot on the Mississippi, and a miner and journalist...and had a wife and children...and this dream goes on and on and on, and sometimes seems so real that I almost believe it is real. I wonder if it is?" Behind this naïve query was his strong interest in conscious and unconscious levels of mental experience, which were then being explored by the new psychology.

Mark Twain in the Margins : The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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ISBN: 0817380191 9780817380199 0817310339 Year: 2000 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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"Through a mixture of careful research and imaginative analysis, Fulton creates a compelling re-vision of Twain as an artist." -American Literary Realism "With the skill of Sherlock Holmes at his best, Fulton deduces from seemingly trivial scribblings Twain's practice as a writer and his use of sources to form both incidents and his hero's social vision . . . . An important accomplishment in Twain studies." -Choice "Fulton has provided a store of potential future scholarship, and he has certainly raised t


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Heretical fictions : religion in the literature of Mark Twain
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ISBN: 1587299372 9781587299377 9781587299032 1587299038 Year: 2010 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain's heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author's early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain's "countertheological" interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books-Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stran


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American vandal
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ISBN: 0674425340 0674425324 9780674425323 9780674416697 0674416694 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Unintimidated by Old World sophistication or travel to undeveloped parts of the globe, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Roy Morris, Jr. focuses on the dozen years he lived overseas and the books he wrote encouraging middle-class Americans to follow him around the world, at the dawn of mass tourism.


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The Mythologizing of Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0817388613 9780817388614 9780817302016 Year: 1984 Publisher: [Tuscaloosa, Alabama] : University of Alabama Press,

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Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps no single critical approach can adequately assess the complex force behind Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain. This native genius, our quintessential artist, rightfully provokes a number of powerful responses, as these original essays demonstrate.
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