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Article: Mark Twain.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Mark Twain. By Larzer Ziff. Lives and Legacies. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [viii], 126. $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517019-9.)
Larzer Ziff's book on Mark Twain appears in a series entitled Lives and Legacies. Other books in the series include David S. Reynolds's Walt Whitman and Craig T. Raine's T. S. Eliot, which places Ziff' s introduction to Mark Twain in excellent scholarly company. The book is based on much research, and Ziff masters the art of communicating his findings. There are four pages of notes and no bibliography. The book is well written, worth reading, and easy to understand.
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