Who Is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain - 9780061735011

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Who Is Mark Twain?Author(s): Mark Twain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States\nImprint: HarperPerennial\nISBN-13: 9780061735011, 978-0061735011\nSynopsis\nYou 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Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, 'for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted'.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 nineteenth-century American author. Here, for the first time in book form, are twenty-four remarkable pieces by the American master - pieces that have been hand picked by Robert Hirst, General Editor of The Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley. In \""Jane Austen\"", Twain wonders if Austen's goal is to make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? \""The Privilege of the Grave\"" offers a powerful .