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Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain's career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for animals. What may surprise even longtime readers and fans is that Twain was an early and ardent animal welfare advocate, the most prominent American of his day to take up that cause. Edited and selected by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who has also supplied an introduction and afterword, Mark Twain's Book of Animals includes stories that are familiar along with those that are appearing in print for the first time.

Animal behavior --- American wit and humor. --- Animal rights. --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Animal welfare --- American literature --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Behavior --- 19th century american literature. --- adventures. --- american literature. --- animal kingdom. --- animal welfare advocate. --- animals. --- entertaining. --- father of american literature. --- great gift. --- huck kills a bird. --- human inadequacies. --- humanity. --- humorist. --- integral animals. --- jim smiley and his jumping frog. --- jumping frogs undiscovered rediscovered and celebrated writings of mark twain. --- morality lessons. --- optimism. --- pilgrims on horseback. --- unique voice. --- united states of america.

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Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings-literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.

American fiction --- Religion and literature --- Religion and culture. --- Bible and literature. --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Literature and the Bible --- History and criticism. --- History --- Moral and religious aspects --- Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman, --- Religion. --- Bible --- Hermeneutics. --- Religion --- Commentaries --- Hermeneutics --- Bible and literature --- Religion and culture --- United States --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century american literature. --- american literature. --- antebellum american culture. --- bible. --- biblical exegesis. --- biblical interpretation. --- biblical outcasts. --- biblical rebels. --- biblical scholarship. --- christianity. --- conflict. --- good and evil. --- hardship. --- holy land travel narratives. --- idolatry. --- job. --- jonah. --- leviathan. --- literary scriptures. --- melville. --- moby dick. --- old testament. --- political sermons. --- politics of biblical reception. --- possession. --- rachel. --- redemption. --- religion. --- spiritual. --- sympathy. --- womens bibles.

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The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were-lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious-and calculating-secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author's finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time. So rife with twists and turns as to defy belief, the story nonetheless comes to undeniable, vibrant life in the letters and diaries of those who witnessed it firsthand: Katy the housekeeper, Jean, Lyon, and others whose own distinctive, perceptive, often amusing voices take us straight into the heart of the Clemens household. Just as Twain extricated himself from the lies, prejudice, and self-delusion that almost turned him into an American Lear, so Karen Lystra liberates the author's last decade from a century of popular misunderstanding. In this gripping book we at last see how, late in life, this American icon discovered a deep kinship with his youngest child and continued to explore the precarious balance of love and pain that is one of the trademarks of his work.

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