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How Nancy Jackson married Kate Wilson and other tales of rebellious girls and daring young women
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ISBN: 0803202393 9780803202399 0803294425 9780803294424 Year: 2001 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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"Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory - and it's not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you'd expect to see Becky Thatcher. This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting, squaring off against angry bulls, or, in what may be the most flagrant flouting of Victorian convention, marrying other women." "This special edition brings together the best of Twain's stories about unconventional girls and women, from Eve as she names the animals in Eden to Joan of Arc to the transvestite farce of a young man named Alice from the Wapping district of London. Whatever they're doing - bopping boys with a baseball bat in "Hellfire Hotchkiss," treating the author to a life story and a dogsled ride in "The Esquimau Maiden's Romance," or sacrificing all for the sake of a horse, as in "A Horse's Tale"--These women and girls are surprising, provocative, and irresistibly entertaining in the great Twain tradition in which they now finally take their rightful place."--Jacket.


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The complete humorous sketches and tales of Mark Twain
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ISBN: 038501094X 9780385010948 Year: 1961 Publisher: Garden City Doubleday

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The fruited plain
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ISBN: 1281721727 9786611721725 0300128347 9780300128345 9781281721723 0300092903 9780300092905 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.

Mark twain : Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays 1852-1890
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ISBN: 0940450364 Year: 1992 Volume: 60 Publisher: New York Library of America

Mark Twain : Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays 1891-1910
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ISBN: 0940450739 Year: 1992 Volume: 61 Publisher: New York Library of America

The adventures of Tom Sawyer ; Tom Sawyer abroad : Tom Sawyer, detective
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ISBN: 0520033531 9786612355158 1282355155 0520905849 9780520905849 9780520033535 6612355158 9781282355156 Year: 1980 Publisher: Berkeley : Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press,

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This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent errors, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these corrupt editions and added errors of their own. It is the aim of the Iowa-California edition to strip away this accretion of error and present texts faithful to the author's intention. By comparing all the life-time version of Mark Twain's works, the editors are able to isolate the author's revisions from the printers and publishers' changes. The record of this comparison supplies not only the evidence for editorial decisions, but also the history of the author's efforts to shape his work. In addition, these volumes include previously uncollected work, work that has long been out of print, and such unpublished writing as related drafts, working notes, and marginalia. The texts are established at the Center for Textual Studies at the University of Iowa or at the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The costs for editorial work have been met by generous support from the Editing Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and other institutional and private donors. The edition is published by the University of California Press with financial assistance from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. All volumes are submitted to the Center for Editions of american Authors, or to its successor, the Committee for Scholarly Editions, for examination and approval

John Barth : the comic sublimity of paradox
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ISBN: 0809307022 Year: 1974 Volume: *20 Publisher: Carbondale London Southern Illinois University Press Feffer and Simons


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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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Asthetische Theorie und literaturwissenschaftliche Methode : eine Untersuchung ihres Zusammenhangs am Beispiel der amerikanische Huck Finn-Kritik
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ISBN: 347602234X 3476003167 9783476003164 Year: 1975 Volume: 43 43 Publisher: Stuttgart Metzler

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