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