The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms, & Concise Opinions - Hardcover

Twain, Mark; Rasmussen, Kent

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9780809230884: The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms, & Concise Opinions

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ISBN 10: 0809230887 ISBN 13: 9780809230884

Publisher: Contemporary Books, 1998

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Gathers more than 1,800 quotations from Twain's writings, presenting his thoughts on a broad range of topics including people he knew, places he visited, and his own books

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From the author of the encyclopedic Mark Twain A to Z comes Mark Twain, accident ("the greatest of all the inventors") to Zola ("The manliest man in France"). This is certainly not the first compilation of Twain witticisms. Nor is it the second or third. But of the 1,800-plus quotations included in The Quotable Mark Twain, more than half do not appear in any other collection. This is because the book's editor, R. Kent Rasmussen, is a committed Twain-ophile who has read and reread nearly everything Twain ever wrote. In these pages Rasmussen offers up Twain's trenchant and provocative words on such wide-ranging subjects as fried chicken ("the art cannot be learned north of the line of Mason and Dixon, nor anywhere in Europe"), Hinduism ("It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient"), the multiplication table ("that odious and confusing and unvanquishable and unlearnable and shameless invention"), and stealing ("It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected"). A browser's bonanza. --Jane Steinberg

About the Author:

R. Kent Rasmussen has published two books on Mark Twain: Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls and Mark Twain A to Z, which won a special citation by the Reference and Adult Services committee of the American Library Association as one of the best reference books published in 1995.

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