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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hal Holbrook's landmark one-man show is most startling in the freshness of Twain's stinging commentary on politics, the art of lying, religion, partriotism, slavery and man's notion that he is the Creator's pet.
3) Mark Twain
Series
Publisher
Salem Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The essays in this volume offer a cross section of provocative interpretations of Mark Twain's writings."--About this volume.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Language
English
Description
Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works.
13) Mark Twain
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 535
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
xvi, 176 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia Legacy
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 CD : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Language
English
Description
"Hal Holbrook has been performing Mark Twain tonight! for 47 years, enthralling audiences with an astonishing protrayal of the person Hemingway called America's first great author.... After over 2000 performances of Mark Twain tonight!, Hal Holbrook remains as passionate as ever about the life-long role. 'Mark Twain is my verbal machine gun, ' he says, 'to shoot down hypocrisy, fools and swindlers.' As the performances on this CD make abundantly clear,...
Series
Library of America volume 199
Publisher
Library Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
19) One hundred years of Huckleberry Finn: the boy, his book, and American culture : centennial essays
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
xviii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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