Recently reading and posting on [new underground] Tom Robotham’s “10 Books That Changed My Life” got me thinking about how literature has moved and altered me over the years. But I saw that in most cases it has been authors—and my intimate, fluid relationship with them over countless hours—rather than single books that affected and [...]
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Mark Twain’s vivid final years
by Rick Skwiot July 17, 2010 BooksIn Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years, Michael Shelden chronicles the energetic end of a life marked by vitality, wit and creation of a mountain of unequalled homegrown literature—including what many (including myself) believe to be the greatest American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Up until the end [...]