Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches - Mark Twain.
He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997).This Library of America book, with its companion volume, is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twains short writings the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of Americas greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to.This with its companion volume is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces never before collected, the volumes show with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark.
Quirk's voice seems attuned to Mark Twain's strengths as conversationalist and raconteur, and while he seems to familiarize us with Mark, he is also alive to the contradictions, frustrations, and lapses that also are so much a part of Twain's work.PREFACE FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF “MARK TWAIN’S SKETCHES” If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals, should eat the entire barrel at one sitting, and then abuse me for making him sick, I would say that he deserved to be made sick for not knowing any better how to utilize.
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