and the body of the book is in small type. The reason it took a team of scholarly horses to draw Twain’s carriage was that the material was like an attic stuffed with oddments, rags, treasures and trifles, and with more works scattered in other literary outbuildings. Twain began his au...
Since its foundation in 1965, has published articles on all aspects of literary and linguistic studies, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The journal sets out to reflect the essential pluralism of modern language and literature studies and to provide a forum for worldwide scholarly ...
Mark Twain scholar Howard Baetzhold theorized that George Kennan's illustrated articles and his visual descriptions of Siberian exiles in the Century were sources for the descriptions of slaves in Connecticut Yankee (4a).Dan Beard's illustration of the Yankee and the King sold as slaves, from ...
While Germans thought Mark Twain looked like Theodore Mommsen, in 1904 Italians mistook him for Antonio Borzi, Director of the Botanical Gardens at Palermo, Italy. Borzi was a distinguished and scholarly man well-known in Florence who held a striking likeness to Mark Twain. Twain commented on be...
In the following essay, Rodgers surveys some of the notable scholarly interpretations of Twain's jumping frog story before arguing that the sketch can be best u
Newspaper articles Encyclopedia articles Mark Twain's America Bernard DeVoto; M. J. Gallagher. Little, Brown, 1932 Read preview Principles of Field and Mining Geology James Donald Forrester. J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1946 Read preview Psychology of the Image Michael Forrester. Routledge,...
Mark Twain's Humor: The Image of a World Pascal Covici Jr.. Southern Methodist University Press, 1962 Read preview See all 17,546 related books and articlesArticle details Contributors: Jeffreys, Susan Publication: The Independent (London, England) Date: November 3, 2001 Subjects: Elton...
Trip of a Lifetime with the Ghost of a Dead Father ; Richard Brautigan's Books - Once Described as `Mark Twain on Acid' - Were Cult Classics for the Hippie Generation. Then in the Eighties, Overwhelmed by Alcohol Abuse and Disillusionment, He Put a Gun to His Head and Shot Himself. ...