{"product_id":"mark-twain-9780817359959","title":"Mark Twain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain. Twain discusses matters as varied as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humour, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book provides vivid biographical data with an immediacy that brings to life everything from Mark Twain’s personal idiosyncrasies and mannerisms to his central ideas on life and literature. . . . The material will delight and enlighten anyone interested in Mark Twain. Highly recommended.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eTwain gave more than 250 recorded interviews in his life—on trains, at home, onboard ship, and in bed, and always smoking. On his many reading tours, his method in a new place was to be open to all comers for the first twenty-four hours, and then to clam up. This led to some modern-sounding media scrums, with each reporter, in the age before tape recorders, paraphrasing away to his heart’s content to produce wildly differing accounts of what was said. . . . Scharnhorst has painstakingly correlated the variants to give us texts as reliable as they can be.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eMark Twain: The Complete Interviews \u003c\/i\u003egoes a long way in recovering that side of the writer that has largely been lost to us. This is a major contribution to Twain scholarship and Scharnhorst’s introduction is a model of clarity and precision.”\u003cbr\u003e —Tom Quirk, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e “Next to Mark Twain’s letters, the interviews with him constitute the most important body of texts that still have not come fully into print. We get in this book an entirely fresh, distinctive, informative body of autobiographical commentary; we also get a kind of running performance as Twain interacts with and postures for reporters (and their readers!), and continually reframes his public persona.”\u003cbr\u003e —Louis J. Budd, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The Growth of Mark Twain’s Early Reputation, 1871–1884\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 1–20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The “Twins of Genius” Tour, 1884–1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 21–39\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. The Best and Worst of Times, 1886–1895\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 40–59\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Across North America, 1895\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 60–81\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Across Australia, Asia, and Africa, 1895–1896\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 82–120\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. “Ambassador at Large” and Man of Letters, 1897–1901\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 121–151\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Last Visit to Missouri, 1902\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 152–170\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. At Large, 1902–1906\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 171–195\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. “Dean of Humorists,” 1906–1907\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 196–220\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Visit to Oxford, 1907\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 221–235\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. The Long Goodbye, 1907–1910\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews 236–258\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733890720087,"sku":"9780817359959","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817359959.jpg?v=1782123449","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mark-twain-9780817359959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}