Thanks, all. Alan, I'm really looking forward to your updated "Library."

Meanwhile l have been intrigued and perhaps enlightened by Emily Auerbach's
article on the subject in the Winter 1999 issue of Virginia Quarterly
Review ("Did Mark Twain really Hate Jane Austen?"
http://www.vqronline.org/essay/barkeeper-entering-kingdom-heaven-did-mark-twain-really-hate-jane-austen
).

"Twain and Austen both belong in that pantheon of the world’s great
authors," she concludes, "perhaps winking at each other when they think no
one is looking."

 -- Pete Salwen

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Jim Leonard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> That's great news about the revised and expanded edition.  Looking forward
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> to seeing it.  -Jim Leonard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Gribben
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Jane Austen topic
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> This Jane Austen question is somewhat complicated, like so many other
> thing=
> =3D s about Twain.=3D20
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> As Barbara Schmidt indicated, my 1980 book summarized the ideas that I and
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> =3D others have advanced about his expressions of vitriol whenever this
> cla=
> ssic=3D  author was praised. Copies of my 1980 work have become
> increasingl=
> y diffic=3D ult to locate, but the first volume of a revised and expanded
> e=
> dition that =3D I recently finished should be available later this year or
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> early next year.
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> Alan Gribben=3D20
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 16, 2017, at 1:35 PM, "Barbara Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]>
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> :
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> > Some of the best discussion on this topic that I've seen is in Alan =20
> >Gribben's _Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction_.  There seems to be=20
> >no  defining answer but a number of intriguing theories.
> >=3D20
> > Barb
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