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Who is Mark Twain? /

0061735000

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Who is Mark Twain? /

[Book]

by Mark Twain.

1st ed.

New York :

Harperstudio,

©2009.

xxvi, 208 pages ;

21 cm

Essays selected by Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Stacks of literary remains": a note on the text -- Whenever I am about to publish a book -- Frank Fuller and my first New York lecture -- Conversations with Satan -- Jane Austen -- The force of "suggestion" -- The privilege of the grave -- A group of servants -- The quarrel in the strong-box -- Happy memories of the dental chair -- Dr. Van Dyke as a man and as a fisherman -- On postage rates on authors' manuscript -- The missionary in world-politics -- The undertaker's tale -- The music box -- The Grand Prix -- The devil's gate -- The snow-shovelers -- Professor Mahaffy on equality -- Interviewing the interviewer -- An incident -- The jungle discusses man -- I rise to a question of privilege -- Telegraph dog -- The American press -- About Mark Twain.

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Here, for the first time in book form, are 24 remarkable pieces by the American master -- pieces that have been handpicked by Robert Hirst, general director of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

American essays-- 19th century.

American essays.

Twain, Mark,1835-1910.

Hirst, Robert H.

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