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Book SynopsisWhen Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. This title includes twenty-four remarkable pieces by the American master.
Trade Review"Who Is Mark Twain? is a refreshing reintroduction to both [Twain's] critical analytical thought and his playful sense of humor." -- Los Angeles Times "Twain's wit and lethally precise powers of description are on full display in Who Is Mark Twain?" -- Maud Newton "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." -- Vanity Fair "[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." -- Washington Post "As funny and insightful as any of [Twain's] published and well-known works, these essays take on the federal government, religion, race, fame, and even the literary canon with a sharp-eyed clarity we can chuckle over as we read while feeling uncomfortable knowing that they feel all too contemporary." -- Walter Mosley
