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"You had better shove this in the range," Draw Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Draw Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. However when Mark Twain passed away in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal paperwork created by any nineteenth-century American author. Here, for the first time in booklet form, are 24 exceptional portions by the American professional - pieces that contain been handpicked by Robert Hirst, standard editor of the Draw Twain Task at the University of California, Berkeley.
In "Jane Austen," Twain wonders if Austen's goal is to "make the reader detest her people up to the middle of the booklet and like them in all of those other chapters." "The Privilege of the Grave" offers a powerful affirmation about the freedom of speech while "Happy Recollections of the Teeth Chair" can make you appreciate modern dentistry. In "Frank Fuller and My First NY Lecture" Twain plasters the location with ads to market his converse at the Cooper Union (he's terrified no person will enroll in). Later that day, Twain encounters two men gazing at one of his advertising. One man says to the other: "Who's Draw Twain?" The other responds: "God is aware of - I don't."
Wickedly funny and disarmingly relevant, Who Is Draw Twain? shines a fresh light on one of America's most precious literary icons - a guy who was simply well ahead of his time.
