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1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead? (1882, 1909)
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256 pages, Paperback
Published March 6, 1997
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Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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July 14, 2013
Mark Twain wrote porn? Yep: 1601. Mostly just dirty jokes while poking fun at the British. I enjoyed the challenge of translating the medieval spelling and typography. This edition is basically a copy of the first editions.
Is Shakespeare Dead? was a bit of a trial. Technically, it's literary criticism—or criticism of literary criticism. The humor strays a bit on the irrascible side for me. And while I don't think Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, I'm not in the Bacon Camp. I lean more toward the 17th Earl of Oxford.
While not my favorite, it had its good moments. And while a bit of a rant, it manages to have a lot of auto-biographical info, and some funny bits.
Is Shakespeare Dead? was a bit of a trial. Technically, it's literary criticism—or criticism of literary criticism. The humor strays a bit on the irrascible side for me. And while I don't think Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, I'm not in the Bacon Camp. I lean more toward the 17th Earl of Oxford.
While not my favorite, it had its good moments. And while a bit of a rant, it manages to have a lot of auto-biographical info, and some funny bits.
August 9, 2016
These are 2 seldom published (and I can see why) works from Mark Twain. 1601 is done in old style print and wording. It is very hard to read. It is supposedly pornographic but more juvenile about farts than sex. The Shakespeare part is a good argument that he didn't write all that is listed under his name. It also is apparently Twain worrying about his own legacy. This book is going straight to Used Book Store. Not worth the effort. There is a reason Twain's more well known work is read by more people, it is so much better than this.
October 14, 2015
Far from the most essential Twain. '1601' is a brief attempt at Elizabethan-era pornography. 'Is Shakespeare Dead?' is a treatise on how Shakespeare could not have written Shakespeare's plays. This edition has facsimiles of both original publications, but that adds only a little interest. For Twain completists only.
January 13, 2018
This book was okay.
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