Thanks, all. Alan, I'm really looking forward to your updated "Library." Meanwhile l have been intrigued and perhaps enlightened by Emily Auerbach's article on the subject in the Winter 1999 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review ("Did Mark Twain really Hate Jane Austen?" http://www.vqronline.org/essay/barkeeper-entering-kingdom-heaven-did-mark-twain-really-hate-jane-austen ). "Twain and Austen both belong in that pantheon of the world’s great authors," she concludes, "perhaps winking at each other when they think no one is looking." -- Pete Salwen *_________________________________* *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371* On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Jim Leonard <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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= > =3D s about Twain.=3D20 > > As Barbara Schmidt indicated, my 1980 book summarized the ideas that I and > = > =3D others have advanced about his expressions of vitriol whenever this > cla= > ssic=3D author was praised. Copies of my 1980 work have become > increasingl= > y diffic=3D ult to locate, but the first volume of a revised and expanded > e= > dition that =3D I recently finished should be available later this year or > = > early next year. > > Alan Gribben=3D20 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 16, 2017, at 1:35 PM, "Barbara Schmidt" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote= > =3D > : > > > Some of the best discussion on this topic that I've seen is in Alan =20 > >Gribben's _Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction_. There seems to be=20 > >no defining answer but a number of intriguing theories. > >=3D20 > > Barb >