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Subject: Can anyone explain this to me? thanks
From: 潘玉莎 <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:33:55 +0800
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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

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