My guess was that authors were on this forum. Ariane Laidlaw On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Kent Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've just been looking at Mark Twain studies on amazon.com and noticed > something remarkable. See if you can guess what the amazon pages for the > books listed below have in common. > > ___________________ > > Berkove, L. & Csicsila, J., HERETICAL FICTIONS: RELIGION IN THE > LITERATURE OF MARK TWAIN (2010) > > Bird, J., MARK TWAIN & METAPHOR (2011) > > Caron, J., MARK TWAIN UNSANCTIFIED NEWSPAPER REPORTER (2011) > > Coulombe, J. L. MARK TWAIN & THE AMERICAN WEST (2011) > > Harris, S. K., GOD'S ARBITERS: AMERICANS & THE PHILIPPINES (2011) > > Howe, L., MARK TWAIN & THE NOVEL (1998) > > Hsu, H., SITTING IN DARKNESS: MARK TWAIN'S ASIA (2015) > > Justus, J., FETCHING THE OLD SOUTHWEST: HUMOROUS WRITING FROM LONGSTREET > TO TWAIN (2004) > > Knoper, R., ACTING NATURALLY: MARK TWAIN IN THE CULTURE OF PERFORMANCE > (1995) > > Kolb, H. H. MARK TWAIN: THE GIFT OF HUMOR (2015) > > Krauth, L., MARK TWAIN & COMPANY: SIX LITERARY RELATIONS (2003) > > Krauth, L., PROPER MARK TWAIN (1999) > > Kupersmith, A., TWAIN & FREUD ON THE HUMAN RACE (2009) > > Lai-Henderson, S., MARK TWAIN IN CHINA (2015) > > Lowry, R. S., "LITTERY MAN": MARK TWAIN & MODERN AUTHORSHIP (1996) > > Melton, J., MARK TWAIN, TRAVEL BOOKS, & TOURISM (2002) > > Mensh, E., & H. Mensh, BLACK, WHITE, & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (2000) > > Messent, P., MARK TWAIN (1997) > > Messent, P., THE SHORT WORKS OF MARK TWAIN (2001) > > Quirk, T., COMING TO GRIPS WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1993) > > Quirk, T., DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY: MARK TWAIN’S HUCKLEBERRY > FINN (2008) > > Quirk, T., MARK TWAIN: A STUDY OF THE SHORT FICTION (1997) > > Railton, S., MARK TWAIN: A SHORT INTRODUCTION (2003) > > Robinson, F. G., et al., THE JESTER & THE SAGES: MARK TWAIN IN > CONVERSATION WITH NIETZSCHE, FREUD, & MARX (2011) > > Robinson, F. G. IN BAD FAITH: THE DYNAMICS OF DECEPTION IN MARK TWAIN'S > AMERICA (1992) > > Robinson, F. G. THE AUTHOR-CAT (2007) > > Robinson, F. G. CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN (1995) > > Sloane, D., MARK TWAIN'S HUMOR (1993) > > Sloane, D., STUDENT COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN (2001) > > Wieck, C., REFIGURING HUCKLEBERRY FINN (2000) > > Wuster, T., MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN HUMORIST (2016) > > ______________________________ > > Did you guess correctly? The answer is that none the books in this list > has a single customer review on its amazon page--and this list is only a > sampling of Mark Twain books without customer reviews. > > It's awfully deflating to spend years working on a book, only to see it > virtually ignored after it's published. I'd therefore like to suggest > that each of us (me included) take a few minutes to go on amazon and > distribute a little praise where it is due. We've all gotten a lot out > of the work of our colleagues. Would it kill us to show a little > appreciation in return? > -- Arianne Laidlaw A '58