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The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms, & Concise Opinions
by Mark Twain, Kent Rasmussen (Editor: R. Kent Rasmussen)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Contemporary Books (1998-06)
ISBN: 0809230887
EAN: 9780809230884
Dewy Decimal #: 818.402
Hardcover: 356 pages
SKU: 00-L9ZX-0FGC
Condition: Good
Comments: Former library with normal stamps/stickers. D/J present with mylar cover. Pages unmarked and crisp.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Here are more than 1,800 quotations, organized from A-to-Z, from America's consummate author--Mark Twain. A must-have for all Twain collectors, The Quotable Mark Twain is filled with his opinions about the people he knew, the places he's been, and the books he wrote, as well as more far-ranging topics, such as writers, billiards, smoking, his family, and more. The book also includes 150 illustrations taken from the original editions of Twain's publications, source citations for each quotation, an annotated bibliography, and a complete index.
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Amazon.com Review
From the author of the encyclopedic Mark Twain A to Z comes Mark Twain, accident ("the greatest of all the inventors") to Zola ("The manliest man in France"). This is certainly not the first compilation of Twain witticisms. Nor is it the second or third. But of the 1,800-plus quotations included in The Quotable Mark Twain, more than half do not appear in any other collection. This is because the book's editor, R. Kent Rasmussen, is a committed Twain-ophile who has read and reread nearly everything Twain ever wrote. In these pages Rasmussen offers up Twain's trenchant and provocative words on such wide-ranging subjects as fried chicken ("the art cannot be learned north of the line of Mason and Dixon, nor anywhere in Europe"), Hinduism ("It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient"), the multiplication table ("that odious and confusing and unvanquishable and unlearnable and shameless invention"), and stealing ("It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected"). A browser's bonanza. --Jane Steinberg
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