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This individual volume covers American novelist Mark Twain. The 42
volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century
European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini
boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. The "Critical
Heritage" series gathers together a large body of critical figures
in literature. These selected sources include: contemporary reviews
from both popular and literary media in which students can read
about how "Lady's Chatterly's Lover" shocked contemporary reviewers
or what Ibsen's "Doll's House" meant to the early women's movement.
Little-published documentary material such as diaries and
correspondence - often between authors and their publishers, as
well as pieces of criticism from later periods that demonstrate how
an author's reputation changed over time, are also incorporated
into the text.
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century
European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a
complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical
Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
In the summer of 1855, when the nineteen-year-old Sam Clements
traveled from Saint Louis to Hannibal, Paris, and Florida,
Missouri, and then to Keokuk, Iowa, he carried with him a notebook
in which he entered French lessons, phrenological information,
miscellaneous observations, and reminders about errands to be
performed. This first notebook thus took the random form which
would characterize most of those to follow. About the text: In
order to avoid editorial misrepresentation and to preserve the
texture of autograph documents, the entries are presented in their
original, often unfinished, form with most of Clemens'
irregularities, inconsistencies, errors, and cancellations
unchanged. Clemens' cancellations are included in the text enclosed
in angle brackets, thus ; editorially-supplied conjectural readings
are in square brackets, thus [word]; hyphens within square brackets
stand for unreadable letters, thus [--]; and editorial remarks are
italicized and enclosed in square brackets, thus [blank page}- A
slash separates alternative readings which Clemens left unresolved,
thus word/word. The separation of entries is indicated on the
printed page by extra space between lines; when the end of a
manuscript entry coincides with the end of a page of the printed
text, the symbol [#] follows the entry. A full discussion of
textual procedures accompanies the tables of emendation and details
of inscription in the Textual Apparatus at the end of each volume;
specific textual problems are explained in headnotes or footnotes
when unusual situations warrant.
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Mark Twain's Fables of Man (Hardcover)
Mark Twain; Edited by John S. Tuckey; Introduction by John S. Tuckey; Series edited by Frederick Anderson; Text written by Kenneth M. Sanderson, …
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For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical
fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained
unpublished. Thirty-six of these writings make their first
appearance here.
The twelve notebooks in volume 1 provided information about the
eighteen years in which the most profound, even dramatic, changes
took place in Clemens' life. He early achieved the limits of his
boyhood ambition by becoming a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi
River, a position there is no reason to believe he would have
abandoned if the Civil War had not forced him to do so. In fleeing
from a war which principle and temperament prevented him from
supporting, Clemens entered into the first stages of his literary
career by serving as a reporter for newspapers in Virginia City and
San Francisco. When the restricted experiences available to a local
reporter had been thoroughly explored, he moved on as a traveling
correspondent to the Sandwich Islands and then still farther to
Europe and the Near East. The latter travels provided him with
material for The Innocents Abroad, the book that established Mark
Twain as a popular author with an international reputation in 1869.
In 1872 he further exploited his personal history by publishing
Roughing It and in the same year visited England to gather material
on English people and institutions. He returned to England the
following year, this time accompanied by his family and by a
secretary who would record the observations printed as the last
notebook in volume 1. Volume 2 of Mark Twain's Notebooks and
Journals, documenting Clemens' activities in the years from 1877 to
1883, consists largely of the record of three trips which would
serve as the source for three travel narratives: the excursion to
Bermuda, a prolonged tour of Europe, and an evocative return to the
Mississippi River. Despite the common impulse to preserve
observations and impressions for literary use, the contents of the
notebooks are remarkably different in their vitality-and the works
which developed from the notes are correspondingly varied.
Volume III of Mark Twain's notebooks spans the years 1883 to 1891,
a period during which Mark Twain's personal fortunes reached their
zenith, as he emerged as one of the most successful authors and
publishers in American literary history. During these years Life on
the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and a Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court appeared, revealing the diversity,
depth, and vitality of Mark Twain's literary talents. With his
speeches, his public performances, and his lecture tour of
1884/1885, he became the most recognizable of national figures. At
the same time, Mark Twain's growing fame and prosperity allowed him
to plunge deeply into the business world, a sphere not suited to
his erratic energies. He created the subscription publish firm of
Charles L. Webster & Company, Which published the most
profitable book of its time, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
And he became the primary financial support for the ingenious but
imperfectible Paige typesetter. Within a few years both the
publishing company and the typesetter had taxed Mark Twain's
patience, and pocket, beyond endurance. The near bankruptcy of the
publishing firm and the debacle of the typesetter scheme finally
resulted in 1891 in a drastic decision--to leave the house in
Hartford, Connecticut, which had long been the symbol of Mark
Twain's rising fortunes and idyllic family life, and move to Europe
for an indefinite period in the hope of reducing the family's
living expenses. The Clemens family would never return to the
Hartford house, and the European stay would lengthen into an almost
unbroken nine years of exile. Mark Twain's notebooks permit an
intimate view of this turbulent period, whose triumphs were
tempered by intimations of financial disaster and personal
bitterness.
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