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Collected Nonfiction Volume 2 - Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings (Hardcover)
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Collected Nonfiction Volume 2 - Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on
full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures,
some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As
Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction, Twain was an
'inspired, indeed, unparalleled, bullshitter' who himself
cheerfully relates how as a cub reporter out West he had elevated a
routine Indian attack on a wagon full of immigrants to a battle
that 'to this day has no parallel in history' - once he knew he
could get away with it. There is drama as well as comedy in his
account of life on the Mississippi, and great sadness too when his
younger brother Henry is killed in a steamboat explosion - all the
more poignant for the restraint with which he describes it. In The
Innocents Abroad Twain the gleeful iconoclast is a passenger on a
cruise ship to Europe and the Holy Land, poking fun at European
snobbery and pretension and refusing to be overawed by all that
History - but fully prepared to aim his satirical barbs at his
fellow-tourists and indeed, squarely at himself. He also proves to
be a deeply compassionate writer, as fierce in his condemnation of
injustice as he is skilful in mining the humour of human folly. He
brought to literature a new, distinctly American voice - and he
harboured as rich and fertile a blend of contradictions as the
dynamic nation he came to embody and define.
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