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Mark Twain's Letters 1876-1880. Volume 3, 1878
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95More than 700 letters published here, spanning over 5 volumes, have never before been gathered together and offered to the public in an easily accessible, organized fashion. Carefully transcribed and dated, they are presented here in a spare, unadorned manner, offering an unprecedented look at an important period in the life of this pre-eminent American... more...
Mark Twain's Letters 1876-1880. Volume 4, 1879
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95More than 700 letters published here, spanning over 5 volumes, have never before been gathered together and offered to the public in an easily accessible, organized fashion. Carefully transcribed and dated, they are presented here in a spare, unadorned manner, offering an unprecedented look at an important period in the life of this pre-eminent American... more...
Mark Twain's Letters 1876-1880. Volume 5, 1880
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95More than 700 letters published here, spanning over 5 volumes, have never before been gathered together and offered to the public in an easily accessible, organized fashion. Carefully transcribed and dated, they are presented here in a spare, unadorned manner, offering an unprecedented look at an important period in the life of this pre-eminent American... more...
Dangerous Intimacy
University of California Press 2004; US$ 24.95The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were?lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm.... more...
Sherwood Anderson
University of Minnesota Press 1965; US$ 36.00Sherwood Anderson - American Writers 43 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates , edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore her... more...
The Writing Life
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood ; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living ; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek . A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. more...
Ben Franklin
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 54.00Each title features: - An in-depth critical portrait of an essential writer presented in a historical context - A useful chronology - An introduction by Harold Bloom. more...
Mark Twain and the River
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 6.99Tom Sawyer is among the best-known, most-loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author?s real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi River. Trace Mark Twain?s life from 1835, when his birth... more...
Who Is Mark Twain?
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 15.99You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection... more...









