Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel”. (Information from Wikipedia)
Website: marktwainproject.org/
Articles in Western American Literature:
A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud, by Gary Scharnhorst
Go East, Young Man: Class Conflict and Degenerate Manhood in Mark Twain’s Early Writings, by Joseph L. Coulombe
John of the Mines: Muir’s Picturesque Rewrite of the Gold Rush, by Nicolas Witschi
Huck Among the Indians: Mark Twain and Richard Irving Dodge’s The Plains of the Great West and Their Inhabitants, by Wayne R. Kime
Life on the Mississippi: Being Shifty in a New Country, by John E. Bassett
The Huck Finn Swindle, by Barry A. Marks
You Can’t Go Back to the Raft Ag’in Huck Honey! Mark Twain’s Western Sequel to Huckleberry Finn, by Paul Delaney
Hateful Reality: The Failure of the Territory in Roughing It, by Tom H. Towers
The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd’nhead Wilson, by John M. Brand
Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Fight for Popularity and Power, by Eberhard Alsen
“Very Much Like A Fire-Cracker”: Owen Wister on Mark Twain, by Ben M. Vorpahl
St. Petersburg Re-Visited: Helen Eustis and Mark Twain, by Stuart L. Burns
Roughing It as Retrospective Reporting, by John DeWitt McKee
Mark Twain’s Chuck-Wagon Specialties, by C. Merton Babcock
Tom Sawyer: Missouri Robin Hood, by L. Moffitt Cecil
Two Primitives: Huck Finn and Tom Outland, by Maynard Fox
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