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    My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Reminiscences and Criticisms
    My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Reminiscences and Criticisms
    My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Reminiscences and Criticisms
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    My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Reminiscences and Criticisms

    By William Dean Howells

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    Published in 1910, this book is a testament to the long friendship between Howells and Twain.  "Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes—I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists," Howells writes;  "they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens [Twain] was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature." The second half of the book collects Howells’s perceptive reviews of Twain’s works.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9781411437401
    My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Reminiscences and Criticisms
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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