false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg 333033 28 Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of <i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i>) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain <i>is</i> a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the <i>Oxford Mark Twain</i>. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. 698 1880 A Tramp Abroad total:235|5:72|4:98|3:59|2:6|1:0| 235 941 383 36 333033 1406813052 9781406813050 204 30 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333033.A_Tramp_Abroad 5 1 false Thu Mar 29 17:03:30 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 29 17:07:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 333033 1406813052 9781406813050 204 30 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333033.A_Tramp_Abroad 3 0 false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Aug 19 00:55:12 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 21:46:34 -0700 2009 This is not a novel but one of his a travel books. Travel books would seem to be a doomed genre. Except for (as here) a writ...more...]]> 333033 1406813052 9781406813050 204 30 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333033.A_Tramp_Abroad 4 0 false Sun Jul 26 06:55:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 07:09:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 333033 1406813052 9781406813050 204 30 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333033.A_Tramp_Abroad 5 1 false Fri Mar 21 07:47:20 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 07:47:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 333033 1406813052 9781406813050 204 30 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173829099m/333033.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333033.A_Tramp_Abroad 3 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 10:11:57 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 10:20:47 -0700 2007
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