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Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic [Paperback]

Mark Twain (Author), Victor Doyno (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 1995

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) commands an important place in the public mind. Many Americans feel a natural and easy identification with this popular literary figure. Twain's Humor, his wit, and his social concern endear him to countless Americans who think of him as 'one of us'. For the general reader, this collection provides a convenient resource that will spark many debates. It will convince scholars of American literature that Clemens was a sceptic for most of his life.

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This isn't just another common anthology of Twain: it gathers an array of fiction, essays, speeches and writings which reveal Twain's wit, humor, and social concern. Anticipation fiction, essays and speeches which reveal his skeptical nature, making for a unique and involving volume. -- Midwest Book Review

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Paperback: 450 pages
Publisher: Prometheus Books (May 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0879759720
ISBN-13: 978-0879759728
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Many Americans feel a natural and easy identification with Mark Twain, who was praised by his contemporaries as "the people's author" and "the laughing philosopher." Read the first page

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United States, New York, Christian Science, Tom Sawyer, San Francisco, New Orleans, Miss Watson, Christopher Colombo, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Harriet Shelley, Sir Walter, New Hampshire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, George Benton, Jacob Blivens, South Carolina, Yrs Ever Mark, George Ealer, New England, Sandwich Islands, Christian Scientist, Edward Mills, Huck Finn, Judge Driscoll, Mars Tom

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This book cites 76 books:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain on 8 pages
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Macmillan Readers) by M Twain on 7 pages
The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on 6 pages
Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain on 4 pages
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain on 4 pages

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Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture by Shelley Fisher Fishkin on 5 pages
The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Susan K. Harris on 4 pages
Negotiating Copyright: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Martin T. Buinicki on 4 pages
Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography by G. Thomas Couser on page 77, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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