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Mark Twain's literary resources : a reconstruction of his library and reading /

"This first installment of Alan Gribben's new multi-volume Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading recounts Dr. Gribben's forty-five-year search for surviving volumes from the library assembled by Twain and his family members. Their collection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gribben, Alan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montgomery : NewSouth Books, [2019-]
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Library > Catalogs.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Books and reading.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Private libraries > United States > Catalogs.
Books and reading.
Libraries.
Private libraries.
United States.
Catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • A fresh start on an immense subject
  • Adding bookshelves to Mark Twain's library
  • William Dean Howells's "Most unliterary" author: Mark Twain
  • Friends like these: lavishing faint praise on Mark Twain
  • Samuel L. Clemens's earliest literary experiences
  • Samuel L. Clemens's eclectic reading: Clemens's favorite books
  • Reading Mark Twain reading
  • The formation of Samuel L. Clemens's library
  • The dispersal of Samuel L. Clemens's library books
  • "Good books & a sleepy conscience": Mark Twain's reading habits
  • "I kind of love small game": Mark Twain's library of literary hogwash
  • Susy Clemens's Shakespeare
  • "It is unsatisfactory to read to one's self": Mark Twain's informal readings
  • "A splendor of stars & suns": Mark Twain as a reader of Browning's poems
  • How Tom Sawyer played Robin Hood "by the book"
  • Mark Twain, phrenology, and the "temperaments": a study of pseudoscientific influence
  • Tom Sawyer, Tom Canty, and Huckleberry Finn: the boy book and Mark Twain
  • Manipulating a genre: Huckleberry Finn as boy book
  • If I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to quote a book: literary knowledge in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain reads Longstreet's Georgia scenes
  • "That pair of spiritual derelicts": the Poe-Twain relationship
  • Those other thematic patterns in Mark Twain's writings
  • "The master hand of old Malory": Mark Twain's acquaintance with Le Morte D'Arthur
  • Anatole France and Mark Twain's Satan
  • "I detest novels, poetry & theology": origin of a fiction concerning Mark Twain's reading
  • "Stolen from books, tho" credit given": Mark Twain's use of literary sources
  • Critical bibliography: books and articles related to Samuel L. Clemens's reading.