Who Is Mark Twain? |
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Author:
| Twain, Mark |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-173501-1 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2010 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | Harper Perennial |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.99USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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"You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Who Is Mark Twain presents twenty-six wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American...
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"You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Who Is Mark Twain presents twenty-six wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American master-a man who was well ahead of his time.