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"Hatching ruin," or, Mark Twain's road to bankruptcy
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ISBN: 0826263364 9780826263360 0826214509 9780826214508 Year: 2003 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

Constructing Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0826263550 9780826263551 9780826213778 0826213774 1417528311 9781417528318 Year: 2001 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

Mark Twain
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ISBN: 1280427787 0198038062 1602566968 9780198038061 0195184858 9780195184853 0195170199 0199924007 0197725155 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Marzer Ziff considers Mark Twain's career and his works in the context of the literary and social culture of his time and his own ambiguous attitude towards his fame as a humorist.

Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0817315764 9780817315764 0817315225 9780817315221 0817359958 Year: 2006 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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The great writer's irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection. This volume is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humor, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers (Howells, Gorky, George Bernard Shaw, T


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Mark Twain's own autobiography
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ISBN: 1282594842 9786612594847 0299234738 9780299234737 0299234746 9780299234744 9780299234744 Year: 2010 Publisher: Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Press

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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence--ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: "Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true." More than the story of a literary career, this memoir is anchored in the writer's relation to his family--what they meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also brims with many of Twain's best comic anecdotes about his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada territory, his notorious Whittier birthday speech, his travels abroad, and more. Twain published twenty-five "Chapters from My Autobiography" in the North American Review in 1906 and 1907. "I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method--form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel." For this second edition, Michael Kiskis's introduction references a wealth of critical work done on Twain since 1990. He also adds a discussion of literary domesticity, locating the autobiography within the history of Twain's literary work and within Twain's own understanding and experience of domestic concerns.

Mark Twain speaking
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ISBN: 1587297191 9781587297199 9781587294686 1587294680 0877450560 Year: 2006 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.


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Twain in his own time
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ISBN: 1587299518 9781587299513 9781587299148 1587299143 Year: 2010 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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The ninety-four recollections gathered in Twain in His Own Time form an unsanitized, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the iconic author. Opening with an interview with his mother that has never been reprinted, it includes memoirs by his daughters and by men who knew him when he was roughing it in Nevada and California, an interview with the pilot who taught him to navigate the Mississippi River, reminiscences from his illustrators E. M. Kemble and Dan Beard and two of his so-called adolescent angelfish, contributions from politicians and from such lite


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Twain's omissions : exploring the gaps as textual context
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ISBN: 1443864366 9781443864367 1306992435 9781306992435 1443849898 9781443849890 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device throughout his fiction by routinely omitting or suspending crucial information in terms of plot, character portraits, descriptive events, chronology, and other aspects from his texts. Twain often introduces characters with very few details regarding their personal histories; while, other information is withheld in terms of the narrative's chronology or not addressed at all, thus producing gaps in the narrative. For example, Twain does not provide any significant information about the mothers of two of his most well-known characters, Huckleberry Finn

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