Description: Mark Twain Mississippi Writings The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Life on the Mississippi | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Pudd’nhead Wilson LOA Library of America 1980 third Printing HC/Slipcase Looks unread. Light wear to the slipcase, slight fading on the book spine. Please see photosI pack really well.No ReturnsPlease let me know you need more info or additional photos Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. This Library of America collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,” a book where nostalgia is so strong that it dissolves the tensions and perplexities that assert themselves in the later works. Twain began Huckleberry Finn the same year Tom Sawyer was published, but he was unable to complete it for several more. It was during this period of uncertainty that Twain made a pilgrimage to the scenes of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a trip that led eventually to Life on the Mississippi. The river in Twain’s descriptions is a bewitching mixture of beauty and power, seductive calms and treacherous shoals, pleasure and terror, an image of the societies it touches and transports. Each of these works is filled with comic and melodramatic adventure, with horseplay and poetic evocations of scenery, and with characters who have become central to American mythology—not only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, but also Roxy, the mulatto slave in Puddn’head Wilson, one of the most telling portraits of a woman in American fiction. With each book there is evidence of a growing bafflement and despair, until with Puddn’head Wilson, high jinks and games, far from disguising the terrible cost of slavery, become instead its macabre evidence. Through each of four works, too, runs the Mississippi, the river that T. S. Eliot, echoing Twain, was to call the “strong brown god.” For Twain, the river represented the complex and often contradictory possibilities in his own and his nation’s life. The Mississippi marks the place where civilization, moving west with its comforts and proprieties, discovers and contends with the rough realities, violence, chicaneries, and promise of freedom on the frontier. It is the place, too, where the currents Mark Twain learned to navigate as a pilot—an experience recounted in Life on the Mississippi—move inexorably into the Deep South, so that the innocence of joyful play and boyhood along its shores eventually confronts the grim reality of slavery. Guy Cardwell (1906–2005), volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He was the author of numerous books and articles about Mark Twain.
Price: 23.95 USD
Location: Watervliet, New York
End Time: 2025-01-29T18:41:06.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.88 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Novel
EAN: 9780940450073
ISBN: 9780940450073
UPC: 9780940450073
Narrative Type: Fiction
MPN: N/A
Original Language: English
Vintage: Yes
Book Title: Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings (LOA #5) : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Life on the Mississippi / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Pudd'nhead Wilson
Number of Pages: 1126 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Library of America, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 1982
Topic: Classics, Literary, Action & Adventure
Item Height: 1.4 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Mark Twain
Book Series: Library of America Mark Twain Edition Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Hardcover
