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Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar
URL: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1820166,00.html

Description:
This 2008 article discusses the contemporary significance of "the man Ernest Hemingway said all of modern American literature could be traced back to: Mark Twain." The article notes that "[w]hether Twain was talking about racism ... foreign misadventures of the Western powers or ... greed ... his target was always human folly and hypocrisy, which turn out to be perennial topics for further study." Includes links to related articles. From Time magazine.

LII Topics: 19th Century, Literary Movements and Periods

Author:
Blount, Roy

Publisher:
Time Inc.

Extra Keywords
sarcasm Samuel Langhorne Clemens humorist

LII Database Information:
Record 27888 created by Maria Brandt on 02/02/2009
Last modification on 03/10/2009
Published: 03/26/2009  
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27888

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