Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479414875 ISBN 13: 9781479414871

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2024

Synopsis

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist, best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, often called the Great American Novel. Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1837-1920, editor of the Atlantic Monthly), and Charles Hopkins Clark (1848-1926, journalist for the Hartford Courant). American Illustrator Edward W. Kemble (1861-1933) is best known for illustrating Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Review

"Old pieces of humor are like antique toys: Some of them still work and some don't, but they all have a certain fascination. Especially if we know that they worked for Mark Twain. And when you find one that does still work after, say, a century and a half, if you are like me you say things like 'Look at that workmanship' to cover your wonderment at sharing inner-child glee with someone who was in the grave when your grandmother was born. To my surprise, I feel that way about a good many pieces in this book." --from the Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr.
"Mark Twain is the Lincoln of our literature."--William Dean Howells

About the Author

Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933) was born in Sacramento, California. An American cartoonist and illustrator, Kemble was commissioned by Mark Twain to illustrate the original edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He also created political cartoons and other illustrations for newspapers and magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Daily Graphic, and Life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479414875
• ISBN 13: 9781479414871
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kemlbe E W
• Number of pages: 732
• Editor: Twain Mark, Howells William Dean