My Mark Twain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Reminiscences and Criticisms
Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | William Dean Howells | ISBN: | 9781411437401 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | February 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
| Author: | William Dean Howells |
| ISBN: | 9781411437401 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Publication: | February 15, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
