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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Though Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, and plenty of other witnesses (of whom I am one) have asserted and proved that a reasonably well-nourished body will show no pronounced effect from even a ten-day fast, newspapers constantly give harrowing details of emaciation and dissolution after fasts of three and four days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...Sawyer (1875) Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Mark Twain," Dr. Miller, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

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