When in Doubt, Tell the Truth: And Other Quotations from Mark Twain

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Columbia University Press, 1996 - 142 pagina's

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.

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Inhoudsopgave

Adam and
1
Animals
6
Camping
19
Coconut Trees
25
Courage
31
Decisions
37
Education
43
Efficiency
44
Knowledge
77
Martyrdom
83
Narrative
89
Neerdowells
90
Overwork
96
Radicals
109
Resolutions
113
Spelling
124

God
56
Hope
64
Human Race the
65
Inheritance
71
Tourists and Tourist Attractions
131
Vulgarity
136
Youth
142
Copyright

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Over de auteur (1996)

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer for a time, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled in the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner, Gilded Age in 1873. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi (1883), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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