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...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. The best humor has a cutting edge, and Kaplan's able biography explains the bitterness and cynicism that underlay everything Mark Twain wrote...
...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. The best humor has a cutting edge, and Kaplan's able biography explains the bitterness and cynicism that underlay everything Mark Twain wrote...
...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. A new biography that illuminates with scrupulous impartiality and great fidelity the dark side of America's most successful-and most tormented 19th century humorist...
...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. A new biography that illuminates, with scrupulous impartiality and great fidelity, the dark side of America's most successful-and most tormented-19th century humorist...
...concentrating on the dark side of Twain, Kaplan's book illuminates the man whose every smile in print was calculated to bite. Without that dark side, Twain might have taken the same level in literature that is occupied by so many of his contemporaries: Petroleum V. Nasby, Josh Billings, George Washington Cable and Bret Harte. But blandness was not in him. He was a reformer-all edges, out of patience with his times, and desperately anxious to transmit the message to all who would listen. Kaplan's book helps explain why the world is listening still...