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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.

Collected tales, sketches, speeches, and essays 1852-1890
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ISBN: 0940450364 Year: 1992 Volume: 60 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Library of America,

Collected tales, sketches, speeches, and essays 1891-1910
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ISBN: 0940450739 Year: 1992 Volume: 61 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Library of America,

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective.
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ISBN: 0520033531 9786612355158 1282355155 0520905849 9780520905849 9780520033535 6612355158 9781282355156 Year: 1980 Publisher: Berkeley 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

Fetching the Old Southwest
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ISBN: 0826264174 9780826264176 0826215440 9780826215444 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press


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Mark Twain: the critical heritage
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ISBN: 0710070845 9780710070845 Year: 1971 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Humorous stories, American --- History and criticism --- Twain, Mark, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- -American humorous stories --- American fiction --- American wit and humor --- Twain, Mark --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -History and criticism --- -Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Tvėn, Mark, --- Tuėĭn, Mark, --- Tuwayn, Mārk, --- Twayn, Mārk, --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo, --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū, --- Twain, Marek, --- Make Tuwen, --- Tuwen, Make, --- Make Teviin, --- Твен, Марк, --- Touain, Mark, --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, --- Conte, Louis de, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk, --- تواين، مارک --- Tvāyn, Mārk, --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de --- Humorous stories, American - History and criticism --- Twain, Mark, - 1835-1910 - Criticism and interpretation --- Twain, Mark (1835-1910) --- Critique et interprétation --- Twain, Mark, - 1835-1910 --- Critique et interprétation

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