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Mark Twain And Human Nature
Tom V. Quirk
Univ. of Missouri Press
November 2007
On Sale: October 28, 2007
Featuring: Mark Twain
304 pages ISBN: 0826217583 EAN: 9780826217585 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Mark Twain claimed he could read human character as well as
he could read the Mississippi River. Now one of America s
preeminent Twain scholars has interwoven the author s inner
life with his writings to produce a meditation on how Twain
s understanding of human nature evolved and deepened. Quirk
charts the ways in which this humorist and occasional
philosopher contemplated human nature, revealing how his
outlook changed over the years. His travels, his readings in
history and science, his political and social commitments,
and his own pragmatic testing of human nature in his writing
contributed to Twain s mature view of his kind. Quirk
establishes the social and scientific contexts that clarify
Twain s thinking, and he considers not only Twain s stated
intentions about his purposes in his published works but
also his ad hoc remarks about the human condition.
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