Mark Twain The Development of a Writer by HenryNashSmith Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-86628-7, ISBN: 0-674-86628-2
"The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general n ..."
Democracy and the Novel Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers (Galaxy Books) by HenryNashSmith Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 1981 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-502896-6, ISBN: 0-19-502896-1
"This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent erros, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these c ..."
"In the years after the Civil War a new force - the mass media - came on the American scene. As steam-powered printing presses and trunkline railroads made possible the mass production and nationwide distribution of books and magazines, the spread of free public education created the market for them.
With the mass media came standardization of taste and opinion, as well s the realization that our nation had changed from an agrarian to a ..."
Virgin Land(Updated) The American West as Symbol and Myth by HenryNashSmith Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1950 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-93952-3, ISBN: 0-674-93952-2
" The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a ..."
Mark Twain-Howells Letters the Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910, Volume I Volume I by Samuel L. Clemens, William Dean Howells 492 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-36884-2, ISBN: 0-674-36884-3
Mark Twain-Howells Letters the Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910, Volume II Volume II by Samuel L. Clemens, William Dean Howells 516 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-36886-6, ISBN: 0-674-36886-X
"Long been recognized not only as one of William Faulkner’s greatest works, but also as the most accessible of his major novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. “Backgrounds and Contexts” is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra that carefully frames the issues presented, with particular atten ..."
" Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats—from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pi ..."
"Passions of the Renaissance Georges Duby Roger Chartier, Phillippe Aria]s. and
for cooking ... a "good color." And when Nicolas dc Bonnefons says that a steak
should be eaten "all bloody and red," he means not that it should be tinted with
arkanet or red cedar but that it should not be ... Discussing "blue-cooked" pike,
Bonnefons explains that it should be "well sprinkled with salt and doused with
good vinegar" which "gives a very ..."
"Paperback. Text contains minor underlining/marking. Covers show edge wear and rubbing. Crease on spine. Book has minor corner bump. Previous owner's name on end paper."
"Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Sh ..."
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Ch ..."