{"product_id":"who-is-mark-twain-9780061735011","title":"Who Is Mark Twain?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern. . . . Ninety-nine years after his death, Twain still manages to get the last laugh.\" -- \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Is Mark Twain?\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens--aka Mark Twain--none of which have ever been published before.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You had better shove this in the stove,\" Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, \"for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted.\" He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. \u003cem\u003eWho Is Mark Twain?\u003c\/em\u003e presents twenty-six wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American master--a man who was well ahead of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwain, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003ePersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc\u003c\/em\u003e was his last completed book--and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper \u0026amp; Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491392622866,"sku":"9780061735011","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_137b8bcd-539a-401c-966c-e68e143803b3.jpg?v=1730540253","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/who-is-mark-twain-9780061735011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}