Textbook
Mark Twain: A Short IntroductionISBN: 978-0-631-23474-6
Paperback
144 pages
November 2003, ©2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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"A concise, yet amazingly rich, informative,
well-researched, and readable introduction to Mark Twain's major
works, from Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson. In
his fresh and helpful interpretations Stephen Railton, developer of
the popular website ‘Mark Twain in His Times,’ provides
relevant biographical and historical backgrounds and incorporates a
broad spectrum of criticism." Werner Sollors, Harvard
University
"Stephen Railton offers a highly readable and crisply argued
discussion of Samuel Clemens' literary persona Mark Twain as public
performance and of the relationship Clemens nurtured and continues
to nurture with his readers...A most useful primer in the social
and aesthetic impact of Mark Twain's art." Michael J. Kiskis,
Elmira College
"Even though Mark Twain (as Samuel Clemens) did die, Railton's book by its very existence proves that Mark Twain still lives, in his works, the legacy of his life, nearly ninety-four years after his physical demise. Mark Twain is dead. Long live Mark Twain!" Mark Twain Forum