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" Who is Mark Twain? / "
by Mark Twain.
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BL
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996217
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b750587
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| Main Entry
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Twain, Mark,1835-1910.
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| Title & Author
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Who is Mark Twain? /\ by Mark Twain.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harperstudio,, ©2009.
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xxvi, 208 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0061735000
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: 9780061735004
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| Notes
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Essays selected by Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.
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| Contents
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"Stacks of literary remains": a note on the text -- Whenever I am about to publish a book -- Frank Fuller and my first New York lecture -- Conversations with Satan -- Jane Austen -- The force of "suggestion" -- The privilege of the grave -- A group of servants -- The quarrel in the strong-box -- Happy memories of the dental chair -- Dr. Van Dyke as a man and as a fisherman -- On postage rates on authors' manuscript -- The missionary in world-politics -- The undertaker's tale -- The music box -- The Grand Prix -- The devil's gate -- The snow-shovelers -- Professor Mahaffy on equality -- Interviewing the interviewer -- An incident -- The jungle discusses man -- I rise to a question of privilege -- Telegraph dog -- The American press -- About Mark Twain.
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| Abstract
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Here, for the first time in book form, are 24 remarkable pieces by the American master -- pieces that have been handpicked by Robert Hirst, general director of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.
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American essays-- 19th century.
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American essays.
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| Dewey Classification
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814.4
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PS1303.H47 2009
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Hirst, Robert H.
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