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Article: Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations.(Book Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Mark Twain and Company: Six Literary Relations, by Leland Krauth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. 307 pp. $34.95; Mark Twain, by Larzer Ziff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 126 pp. $17.95.
LELAND KRAUTH REMINDS US, in this substantive study, that Mark Twain referred, in his "Chapters from My Autobiography," to over a hundred authors of his time, considering himself, in Krauth's words, as "a member of a confederacy of craftsmen" (260). That "confederacy" is reduced to a haft-dozen in this new study, for Krauth's purpose is to focus only on those relationships that were "both personal and literary" (260) to a degree that merits further ...