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Who Is Mark Twain? (Paperback)
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Who Is Mark Twain? (Paperback)
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List price R309
Loot Price R229
Discovery Miles 2 290
You Save R80 (26%)
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You had better shove this in the stove, Mark Twain said at the top
of an 1865 letter to his brother, 'for I don't want any absurd
'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain'
published after I am planted'. He was joking, of course. But when
Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of
personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author.
Here, for the first time in book form, are twenty-four remarkable
pieces by the American master - pieces that have been hand picked
by Robert Hirst, General Editor of The Mark Twain Project at UC
Berkeley. In "Jane Austen", Twain wonders if Austen's goal is to
make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the book and
like them in the rest of the chapters? "The Privilege of the Grave"
offers a powerful statement about the freedom of speech while
"Happy Memories of the Dental Chair" will make you appreciate
modern dentistry. In "Frank Fuller" and "My Fist New York Lecture"
Twain plasters the city with ads to promote his talk at the Cooper
Union (he is terrified no one will attend). Later that day, Twain
encounters two men gazing at one of his ads. One man says to the
other: Who is Mark Twain? The other responds: God Knows-I Don't.
Wickedly funny and disarmingly relevant, "Who is Mark Twain?"
shines new light on one of America's most beloved literary icons -
a man who was well ahead of his time.
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