Mainly the Truth: Interviews With Mark Twain - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0817355391 ISBN 13 : 9780817355395

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2009

Synopsis

Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain is a collection of the most colorful and vivacious interviews that Mark Twain gave to newspapers and reporters throughout his career. A master storyteller and raconteur, Twain understood the value of publicity, and these interviews capture Twain both at his most lively and in moments of candor and introspection. In his interviews, Twain discussed such topical issues as hazing and civil service reform, and more enduring concerns, such as his lecture style, his writings, government corruption, humor, his bankruptcy, racism, women's suffrage, imperialism, international copyright, and his impressions of other writers (Howells, Gorky, George Bernard Shaw, Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Hawthorne, Dickens, Bret Harte, among others). These interviews are both oral performances in their own right and a new basis for evaluating contemporary responses to Twain's writings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of over thirty books and editor of the journal American Literary Realism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817355391
• ISBN 13: 9780817355395
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Scharnhorst Gary
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne