Mark Twain

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Mark Twain / Biography of Mark Twain / The Paris review perspective / Mark Twain and his times / Mark Twain's critical reception / "Pluck enough to lynch a man": Mark Twain and manhood / Kindred rivals: Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce / Mark Twain as a travel writer / The adventures of Tom Sawyer: a nightmare vision of American boyhood / The realism of Huckleberry Finn / "Huckleberry fun" / Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / Connecticut Yankee: Twain's other masterpiece / Mark Twain as a science-fiction writer / Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity

New worlds for old: the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature.

New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- Other worlds: Other worlds out of space and time: Edgar Allan Poe and the visionary tradition of science fiction ; The left hand of darkness: Ursula K. LeGuin's archetypal "Winter-journey" -- Other worlds in space and time: Utopian fantasy as millennial motive and science-fictional motif ; The means and ends of science fiction -- The present world in other terms: Human, more or less: The transformed world of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland ; Solaris and the illegitimate suns of science fiction -- Its a flat world!: Epoch-eclipse and apocalypse: special "effects" in A Connecticut yankee ; New dimensions of time, space, and literature -- Somebody up there: Melville's The confidence-man and the fiction of science ; Vonnegut's spiral siren call: from Dresden's lunar vistas to Tralfamadore.

Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013

Works. Selections

Philip Roth, why write?

Collected nonfiction, 1960-2013

The Library of America ;

Library of America ;

From Reading myself and others. "I always wanted you to admire my fasting, " or, Looking at Kafka ; Writing American fiction ; New Jewish stereotypes ; Writing about Jews ; On Portnoy's complaint ; In response to those who have asked me : How did you come to write that book, anyway? ; Imagining Jews ; Writing and the powers that be ; After eight books ; Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur ; Interview with the London Sunday Times ; Interview with the Paris Review ; Interview on Zuckerman -- Shop talk : a writer and his colleagues and their work. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi ; Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld ; Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma ; Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz ; Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera ; Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien ; An exchange with Mary McCarthy ; Pictures of Malamud ; Pictures by Guston ; Rereading Saul Bellow -- Explanations. Juice or gravy? ; Patrimony ; Yiddish/English ; "I have fallen in love with American names" ; My Uchronia ; Eric Duncan ; Errata ; "Tyranny is better organized than freedom" ; A Czech education ; The primacy of Ludus ; Interview on The ghost writer ; Interview with Svenska Dagbladet ; Forty-five years on ; The ruthless intimacy of fiction --

Nightfall

A stranger is watching

Marry me : a romance

In the fire of spring

Days to the gallows : a novel of the Hartford witch panic

Novel of the Hartford witch panic

The middle Moffat

Naked cruelty [sound recording] : a Carmine Delmonico novel

Naked cruelty : a Carmine Delmonico novel

Carmine Delmonico novel

Carmine Delmonico novel.

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