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Who is Mark Twain?
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Author
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Mark Twain.
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Publisher
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Harper
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Format
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paperback
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8
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5.25
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0.7
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ISBN
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9780061735011
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Pages/Publication Date
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228/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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23423
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This item is not available.
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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Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted."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 19th-century American author. Who Is Mark Twain? presents 26 wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American master. "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 "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
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