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Letters written by Twain between his eighteenth year and his death provide a revealing, multifaceted self-portrait of the private man and the public celebrity and wry observations about contemporary personalities and events
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During his remarkable life, Charles Neider (1915-2001) edited many books, including Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance, The Travels of Mark Twain, Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities, Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict, Essays of the Masters, and many others. In addition to these titles, Cooper Square Press has also published Neider's The Grotto Berg: Two Novellas. His memoir Adam's Burden: An Explorer's Personal Odyssey Through Prostate Cancer was published earlier this year by Madison Books.
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Twain is the most amusing and graceful of correspondents. Some of his best comic prose is in these letters. (Newsweek)
[An] excellent collection.... What strikes one about the letters is the wonderful flexibility with which Twain used language. He could convey anything—love, indignation, a comic situation, the ruefulness of old age—with seeming naturalness and lack of conscious art. Because of this spontaneity, reading the book, which amounts to an autobiography, gives on an odd feeling of Twain's presence. (The New Yorker)
[An] excellent collection.... What strikes one about the letters is the wonderful flexibility with which Twain used language. He could convey anything—love, indignation, a comic situation, the ruefulness of old age—with seeming naturalness and lack of conscious art. Because of this spontaneity, reading the book, which amounts to an autobiography, gives on an odd feeling of Twain's presence. (The New Yorker)
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- PublisherBook Sales
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0060149469
- ISBN 13 9780060149468
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages328
- EditorCharles Neider
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