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,
Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Hawthorne, Dickens, Bret Harte,
among others). These interviews are both oral performances in their
own right and a new basis for evaluating contemporary responses to
Twain's writings. Some of the parameters Gary Scharnhorst has
followed in assembling the collection is to omit self-interviews,
humorous sketches written by Twain in interview form, interviews
judged by Twain scholars to be spurious, purported interviews that
contain no direct quotations, and interviews that exist only in
versions translated from the English, as there is no way to verify
the accuracy of their retranslations back into English. Because the
interviews are records of verbal conversations rather than texts
written in Twain's hand, Scharnhorst has corrected errors in
spelling and regularized punctuation. Four interviews here are new
to scholarship; fewer than a fifth have ever been reprinted.
Because" Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews" makes accessible, in
one volume, source documents of immeasurable value to understanding
one of America's most consequential writers, it will be valued by
both academic and publiclibraries, Twain scholars and enthusiasts,
and general readers of humor. Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished
Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the
author or editor of over thirty books and editor of the journal
"American Literary Realism."
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