Discusses the lives and careers of Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Hemingway, and DosPassos, each of whom began as journalists

Product Description: Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art...read more

Product Description: A Mark Twain scholar. An African American philosopher. A lesbian feminist literary critic. A Cuban-American anthropologist. A German immigrant to the United States. A professor of English at a Jesuit university. All share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas in People of the Book, the first book in which Jewish-American scholars examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavors, and how their intellectual work has deepened their sense of themselves as Jews...read more

Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

Product Description: One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Twain's historical tale about Edward VI and a pauper who exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death.

Presents all of Mark Twains's books in the format in which they were first published, including the original illustrations

Product Description: Three detective stories by Mark Twain with an introduction by Walter Mosely, the modern master of mystery writing, and an afterword by noted scholar Lillian S. Robinson. "The Stolen White Elephant" is a broad farce mocking the self-proclaimed omniscience of many fictional detectives, told entirely in the form of a series of ridiculous telegraphs...read more

Tells the stories of Siamese twins and two infants, one slave, one free, that were switched at birth

Product Description: 1601 is Twain's hilarious pornographic send-up of Elizabethan England. In Is Shakespeare Dead?, an aging Twain meditates on Shakespeare and on his own chances for immortality.

The author looks back on selected parts of his life and career

The author describes his experiences traveling around the world and criticizes colonial empires for their treatment of native subjects (view table of contents)

Product Description: The King of Siam's decision to send the Queen of England a literal white elephant as a gift sets in motion a broad farce targeting the self-proclaimed brilliance of the corrupt and incompetent chief of New York City detectives in Twain's delightfully absurd story, "A Stolen White Elephant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

Nine stories include 'Mental Telegraphy,' 'A Cure for the Blues,' 'About All Kinds of Ships,' 'Playing Courier,' and 'A Majestic Literary Fossil'

Explores the cultural influences of Twain and his stories

Tells the stories of Siamese twins and two infants, one slave, one free, that were switched at birth

Product Description: 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales...read more

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A new edition of two popular American novels presents Twain's classic works depicting the youthful escapades of two boys living along the Mississippi, accompanied by an updated bibliography and a new introduction. Reprint.

In a play by Mark Twain, a group of impoverished artists living in Barbizon, France, stage the death of a friend to increase the value of his paintings and in the process, must engage in cross-dressing, deception, and romantic intrigue in order to make their plot succeed. (Literature)

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