Dear Group members,
In the introduction to The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (edited
by
Charles Neider) there is a sentence as follows:
Despite his [Twain] frontier manliness he is too frilly, too juvenile,
too
surrounded by females to entirely please the national taste.
Can anyone explain to me why MT is ¡°too surrounded by females to
entirely
please the national taste¡±? I don¡¯t think his writing is only
for the
feminine taste.
Louisa Pan
