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Genre/Form: | Satire Humorous stories Humorous fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. American claimant. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (OCoLC)645953720 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Twain |
ISBN: | 0195114124 9780195114126 019510143X 9780195101430 0195090888 9780195090888 0195113454 9780195113457 9780199733491 019973349X |
OCLC Number: | 34515219 |
Description: | xliii, 277, 38 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | For further reading / Peter Messent -- Illustrators and illustrations in Mark Twain's first American editions / Beverly R. David & Ray Sapirstein -- Reading the illustrations in "The American Claimant" / Beverly R. David & Ray Sapirstein -- A note on the text / Robert H. Hirst. |
Responsibility: | Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Bobbie Ann Mason ; afterword, Peter Messent. |
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Abstract:
An English earl who dresses like a cowboy and an out-of-work mad-cap writer help to make Twain's least-known comic novel a Monty Pythonesque roller-coaster ride.
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