My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms - Brossura

Howells, William Dean

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ISBN 10: 0807101257 ISBN 13: 9780807101254

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

For more than forty years William Dean Howells counted Mark Twain among his closest friends. Howells knew all the great men of American literature during the last half of the nineteenth century. In his acquaintance were Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell, Holmes, and a long list of other sages, poets, novelists, and critics.

“They were like on another and like other literary men,” Howells wrote, “but Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”

Mark Twin’s death on April 21, 1910, moved Howells to record his memories of the man he felt “pervaded” the era “almost more than any other man of letters.” His reminiscences were published in Harper’s Monthly and subsequently put into book form along with twelve pieces of Howells’ criticism of Mark Twain’s work.

This is the first new edition of the book since the original printing in 1910. Both the sketch and the essays have been annotated to give the reader a full appreciation of Mark Twain’s growth as a writer and Howells’ increasing awareness of his friends’ greatness. The notes identify and explain the literary issues, the people, places, and events to which Howells alludes.

The long friendship between Howells and Mark Twain fostered innumerable visits, extensive correspondence, joint literary projects, and often humorous escapades. To a great degree Howells identified with Clemens. Both men were of midwestern origin and came from similar backgrounds. They encountered literary Boston together. Both experienced domestic tragedy. The immediacy of My Mark Twain affords the reader a rare and intimate picture of Mark Twain and indirectly, of Howells.

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Marilyn Austin Baldwin is a former English instructor at Augusta College. She holds a B.A. degree from Indiana University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University.

Product Description

William Dean Howells and Mark Twain were intimate friends for more than forty years. Shortly after Mark Twain died in 1910, Howells recorded this classic reminiscence of the man who, he said, "pervaded" the era "almost more than any other man of letters, if not quite more...."This new annotated edition of the book includes the biographical sketch, Howells' twelve critical essays on Mark Twain, and additional information about the social and literary issues, the people, places, and events to which Howells alludes.

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807101257
• ISBN 13: 9780807101254
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250