Folks, here is a wide-ranging and entertaining review of a number of recent works on MT (though at times a tad dismissive), published in the latest TLS; including some relatively nice things to say about our new edition of the Twain-Twichell letters.  I suppose we can forgive the dismissive tone of some of in exchange for being cited in TLS!


https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/

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The difficulties in dealing with Mark Twain | Daniel Karlin<https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/>
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Mark Twain continues to bedevil the academy, if not the reading public. Like Kipling, he has been by turns reviled and revered, often for the wrong reasons.






Dr. Hal Bush

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