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From the Book
Mark Twain and the great valley / Bernard De Voto
Mark Twain's neglected classic / F.R. Leavis
First-person narration in David Copperfield and Huckleberry Finn / J. Hillis Miller
Mark Twain / Robert Penn Warren
The anxiety of entertainment / Judith Fetterley
The adventures of Tom Sawyer : a nightmare vision of American boyhood / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Deus Ludens : the shaping of Mark Twain's Mysterious stranger / Bruce Michelson
Creatures of circumstance : Mark Twain / Alfred Kazin
Life on the Mississippi revisited / James M. Cox
"Yours truly, Huck Finn" / Roy Harvey Pearce
Revising the American dream : A Connecticut yankee / Douglas Robinson
The limits of semiotics in Huckleberry Finn / Cleo McNelly Kearns.
From the Book
Biography of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Plot summary of "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County"
List of characters in "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County"
Critical views on "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County." James M. Cox on being taken in ; Everett Emerson on victimization of Smiley and the narrator ; Henry B. Wonham on Twain's revisions ; Stuart Hutchinson on language in "The celebrated jumping frog"
Plot summary of "Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut"
List of characters in "Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut"
Critical views on "Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut." Albert Bigelow Paine on the reception of "Carnival of crime" ; Susan Gillman on Twain's theory of duality ; Gladys Carmen Bellamy on Twain's burlesque ; Robert Keith Miller on Twain's growth as an author ; Maxwell Geismar on the story's influence on Twain's later works
Plot summary of "The stolen white elephant"
List of characters in "The stolen white elephant"
Critical views on "The stolen white elephant." Howard G. Baetzhold on the model for Inspector Blunt ; Virginia S. Hale on Twain's satire of detective practices ; Peter Messent on the elephant as symbolic of a hoax
Plot summary of "The man that corrupted Hadleyburg"
List of characters in "The man that corrupted Hadleyburg"
Critical views on "The man that corrupted Hadleyburg." Earl F. Briden and Mary Prescott on Mr. and Mrs. Richards ; Susan K. Harris on sources for the story ; Mary E. Rucker on the Richards' redemption ; Gary Scharnhorst on the stranger ; Howard G. Baetzhold on the influence of William Lecky ; Philip S. Foner on artificial honesty in the story
Plot summary of "The £1,000,000 note"
List of characters in "The £1,000,000 note"
Critical views on "The £1,000,000 note." Philip S. Foner on money lust ; Maxwell Geismar on historical context of "The £1,000,000 note" ; James L. Johnson on Twain's later influences ; Harold H. Kolb Jr. on a comparison of Twain's early and later writings.
From the Book
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Biography
Personal
Unsigned "Virginia at midnight" (1863)
Unsigned "What does it mean?" (1863)
Unsigned "Unhealthy" (1863)
Mark Twain (1863)
Unsigned "Worse and worse" (1863)
Unsigned (1863)
Artemus Ward (1864)
Unsigned (1864)
Various correspondents (1864)
Unsigned editorials (1864)
Henry Clapp, Jr. (1865)
Unsigned (1866)
Ambrose Bierce (1870)
Edward Peron Hingston (1870)
Attributed to Edward Peron Hingston (1873)
Ambrose Bierce "Letter from England" (1872)
Anthony Trollope (1873)
Ambrose Bierce (1873-74)
Bret Harte (1876-77)
Unsigned (1877)
Albert Bigelow Paine "The Whittier birthday speech" (1877)
Ambrose Bierce "Comment on a famous faux pas" (1878)
Joel Chandler Harris (1881)
Ambrose Bierce (1886)
Ambrose Bierce "Prattle" (1888)
Walt Whitman (1889)
Horace Traubel (1889)
William James (1892-93)
Dan DeQuille (1893) "Reporting with Mark Twain"
Ambrose Bierce (1905-06)
William James (1907)
George Bernard Shaw "Shaw meets Twain and explains him" (1907)
Ferris Greenslet (1908)
Jerome K. Jerome "Jerome's first meeting with him" (1910)
E.V. Lucas "E.V. Lucas and Twain at a 'Punch dinner'" (1910)
William Dean Howells (1910)
Joaquin Miller (1912)
Ambrose Bierce (1913)
C.C. Goodwin "Samuel L. Clemens: 'Mark Twain'" (1913)
Henry W. Fisher (1922)
General
Bret Harte "From California" (1866)
Charles Henry Webb (1867)
Ellen Tucker Emerson (1873)
Henry James (1875)
Robert Underwood Johnson "A new book by Mark Twain" (1877)
Joel Chandler Harris (1882)
William Dean Howells "Mark Twain" (1882)
Thomas Hardy (1883)
William Dean Howells "The editor's study" (1887)
Oscar Wilde "The child-philosopher" (1887)
Andrew Lang "On the art of Mark Twain" (1891)
William Montgomery Clemens (1894)
H.H. Boyesen "The plague of jocularity" (1895)
Theodore Dreiser "The literary shower" (1896)
William Dean Howells (1897)
Brander Matthews (1899)
Barrett Wendell (1900)
Harry Thurston Peck "As to Mark Twain" (1901)
Ambrose Bierce "Wit and humor" (1903)
Barrett Wendell with Chester Noyes Greenough (1904)
Harry Thurston Peck "Mark Twain at ebb tide" (1904)
Hammond Lamont "Mark Twain at seventy" (1905)
William Lyon Phelps "Mark Twain" (1907)
Sigmund Freud "Contribution to a questionnaire on reading" (1907)
Archibald Henderson "Mark Twain" (1909)
H.L. Mencken "Novels and other books, mostly bad" (1909)
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Arnold Bennett "Arnold Bennett considers Twain was a divine amateur" (1910)
Various authors "Tributes to Mark Twain" (1910)
George Ade "Mark Twain and the old time subscription book" (1910)
Simeon Strunsky (1910)
H.L. Mencken "Twain and Howells" (1911)
William Dean Howells (1913)
H.L. Mencken "The burden of humor" (1913)
Sigmund Freud (1914)
Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
H.L. Mencken (1917)
Ring Lardner "Three stories a year are enough for a writer" (1917)
H.L. Mencken "Si mutare potest aethiops pellum suam" (1917)
H.L. Mencken "Mark Twain's Americanism" (1917)
Ezra Pound "Three views of H.L. Mencken" (1918)
William Dean Howells (1918)
Waldo Frank (1919)
Van Wyck Brooks (1920)
Works
The jumping frog of Calaveras county
Mark Twain (1866)
Unsigned "New publications / miscellaneous" (1867)
Unsigned "The citizen's book table" (1867)
Unsigned (1867)
Dan DeQuille (1874)
The innocents abroad
Unsigned review int he Virginia City Territorial Enterprise (1869)
William Dean Howells (1869)
Reviewer writing as "Tom Folio" (1869)
Bret Harte (1870)
Ambrose Bierce "A joke on the Saturday Review" (1870)
Mark Twain "An entertaining article" (1870)
Henry Harland "Mark Twain" (1899)
Mark Twain "Mark Twain's own account" (1907)
William Dean Howells (1910)
Arthur Bigelow Paine (1912)
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
William Dean Howells (1876)
Moncure Daniel Conway (1876)
Unsigned review in the Edinburgh Scotsman (1876)
Unsigned review in the Athenaeum (1876)
Richard F. Littledale (1876)
Unsigned review in the London Times (1876)
Unsigned review in the New York Times (1877)
Will Clemens (1894)
William Dean Howells (1910)
Carl Van Doren (1921)
The prince and the pauper
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1881)
Unsigned review (1881)
Review attributed to Edward Purcell (1881)
Joel Chandler Harris (1881)
Unsigned review in Century Magazine (1882)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1887)
Life on the Mississippi
Unsigned review in the Chicago Tribune (1883)
Lafcadio Hearn (1883)
Unsigned review in the Athenaeum (1883)
Robert Brown (1883)
Unsigned review int he Arkansaw Traveler (1883)
Unsigned review in Graphic (1883)
William Dean Howells (1910)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unsigned review "Mark Twain in a dilemma" (1884)
Brander Matthews "Huckleberry Finn" (1885)
Robert Bridges (1885)
Franklin B. Sanborn "Mark Twain and Lord Lytton" (1885)
Thomas Sergeant Perry "Open letters" (1885)
Joel Chandler Harris "Huckleberry Finn and his critics" (1885)
Joel Chandler Harris "Symposium on the historical novel" (1885)
Mark Twain (1885)
Sir Walter Besant "My favorite novelist and his best book" (1898)
H.L. Mencken "Popularity index" (1910)
Carl Van Doren (1921)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
Mark Twain (1889)
William Dean Howells (1890)
Desmond O'Brien (1890)
Unsigned review in Speaker (1890)
Unsigned review in the Daily Telegraph (1890)
Henry C. Vedder (1893)
William Dean Howells "My favorite novelist and his best book" (1897)
The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain "Those extraordinary twins" (1894)
William Livingston Alden (1894)
Unsigned reviewin the Athenaeum (1895)
Unsigned review in The Critic (1895)
Martha McCulloch Williams "In re 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'" (1894)
Chronology
Index.
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9780791051245
9781604131345
9780791085691
9780877546986
9780791063729
9781604131345
9780791085691
9780877546986
9780791063729
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