- Hardcover: 442 pages
- Publisher: Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.; New edition edition (December 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0870521195
- ISBN-13: 978-0870521195
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 717 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium.
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"This new collection of the works of Mark Twain, complete with thought-provoking introductions by more than two dozen of our finest contemporary writers, is destined to become a modern-day classic."--The Oregonian
"The season finds no lack of major literary works. The most inpressive debut must be the new 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain. This is a wonderful set."--The Houston Chronicle
"The most impressive gift for book lovers this Christmas has to be The Oxford Mark Twain, a 29-volume collection of works by the writer may consider the central figure in American Literature."--The Kansas City Star
"Now a major publishing event puts Twain in the spotlight again."--The Lexington Herald-Leader
"For its beautiful design, its thoughtfulness, and its inclusion of virtually everything of importance by this great, great writer...I cannot praise it too highly."--Ihe Toronto Globe and Mail
"The Oxford Mark Twain offers many days' worth of almost undiluted reading pleasure--as well an an effective rebuke to the agenda-burdened know-nothings who want Huckleberry Finn excised from the curriculum."--Kirkus Reviews
"The family Christams gift of the year."--The Memphis Commercial Appeal
"In compiling this impressive stack of works by Twain, Fishkin matched each volume with an American writer and asked them to pen a personal introduction to the work. The list reads like a syllabus from an American contemporary lit class, including such imaginative pair-ups as Arthur Miller on Chapters from My Autobiography.--St. Petersburg Times
"The Oxford Twain is the real thing."--Washington Post
"What draws you into these books and keeps you there is Twain's very American but very indivdual voice: deadpan, wry, sly, and animated by a plainspoken honesty that's several miles down the river from respectability."--Entertainment Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"The season finds no lack of major literary works. The most inpressive debut must be the new 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain. This is a wonderful set."--The Houston Chronicle
"The most impressive gift for book lovers this Christmas has to be The Oxford Mark Twain, a 29-volume collection of works by the writer may consider the central figure in American Literature."--The Kansas City Star
"Now a major publishing event puts Twain in the spotlight again."--The Lexington Herald-Leader
"For its beautiful design, its thoughtfulness, and its inclusion of virtually everything of importance by this great, great writer...I cannot praise it too highly."--Ihe Toronto Globe and Mail
"The Oxford Mark Twain offers many days' worth of almost undiluted reading pleasure--as well an an effective rebuke to the agenda-burdened know-nothings who want Huckleberry Finn excised from the curriculum."--Kirkus Reviews
"The family Christams gift of the year."--The Memphis Commercial Appeal
"In compiling this impressive stack of works by Twain, Fishkin matched each volume with an American writer and asked them to pen a personal introduction to the work. The list reads like a syllabus from an American contemporary lit class, including such imaginative pair-ups as Arthur Miller on Chapters from My Autobiography.--St. Petersburg Times
"The Oxford Twain is the real thing."--Washington Post
"What draws you into these books and keeps you there is Twain's very American but very indivdual voice: deadpan, wry, sly, and animated by a plainspoken honesty that's several miles down the river from respectability."--Entertainment Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A matchless eye with an acidic pen,
By Stephen A. Haines (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Tramp Abroad (1880) (Hardcover)
America's post-Civil War years brought a renewed interest in the European scene. Journeysknown as Grand Tours led tourists to take ship to the Continent. They fanned out across the landscape with the intent to "know Europe." Their return home resulted in a flurry of published accounts. Twain satirizes both the tourists and their writings with delicious wit. Ever a man to play with words, his "tramp" refers to both himself and the walking tour of Europe he purports to have made. By the time you've reached the end of the account of the "walking tour" incorporating trains, carriages and barges, you realize that the longest "walk" Twain took occurred in dark hotel room while trying to find his bed. He claims to have covered 47 miles wandering around the room. Twain was interested in everything, probing into both well-known and obscure topics. His
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Barometer Soup,
By JOHN ANDREW ABEL (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
I have not read Twain since High School twenty five plus years ago but a friend on a newspapers book forums got me to read him again and A Tramp Abroad is the first book I picked. For the current generation this book may drag but for those of us who grew up reading books instead of playing computer games this is Twain at his best. One has to actually read into his writing to appreciate a lot of the irony but when this book is really on like the mountain climbing near the Matterhorn ,Twain makes Seinfeld seem like he's talking about something. A brilliant travel essay and by the way the Penguin Classics edition of this book in paperback is 411 pages long, not 670 pages .
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This review is from: A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
This book basically is a collection of stories, bound together by a travel report. The stories vary between highly witty and almost embarrassingly average. They do not always fit together to make a consistent whole. But - if you skip some of the worst passages - this is one of the most amusing books one can find. As a German native speaker I especially enjoyed the part about the "awful German language".
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