| Who Is Mark Twain? Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061735000 ISBN-13: 9780061735004 Publisher: Harper OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: These 24 wickedly funny, culturally relevant, and thought-provoking essays byMark Twain are all being published for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: 818.409 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.1" W x 8.28" (0.68 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Twain] was, in the phrase of his friend William Dean Howells, 'the Lincoln of our literature'... At the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American qualities: irreverence." "More than 100 years after Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.... Ninety-nine years after his death, Twain still manages to get the last laugh." Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens--aka Mark Twain--none of which have ever been published before, and all of which are completely contemporary, amazingly relevant, and gut-bustingly hilarious. |
Contributor Bio(s): Twain, Mark: - Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book--and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. |