Read through this talk delivered to the Mark Twain Association of New York by Peter Salwen, comparing the two literary greats.
MIT-sponsored group offers a veritable library of review and criticism of works by and about the Great Humorist. Browse the index.
Author and Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin answers questions from the public regarding the question of racism in Huckleberry Finn.
Contrasts the author with his favorite target for criticism on the topic of overly sentimental and racist portrayals of Native Americans.
Published in May 1880, this positive review of Mark Twain s "A Tramp Abroad" notes that "The Innocents Abroad" might be better, but this novel is still a humorous read.
Review of Mark Twain s "Life on the Mississippi"takes the reader through the novel chapter by chapter, making note of Twain s care in describing the river.
William Dean Howells offered this positive review of Twain s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." Read his thoughts about Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly, Mary, and the whole narrative.
In a review by William Dean Howells, Mark Twain s "The Innocents Abroad," is recognized as a humorist novel filled with irony. Read the full 1869 review.