That's great news about the revised and expanded edition.  Looking forward to seeing it.  -Jim Leonard


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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Gribben
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 4:57 PM
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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

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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