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Article: Mark Twain Speaks for Himself
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- June 22, 1998
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Paul Fatout, ed. Rpt. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1997. xxi + 244 pp. paper. $14.95. Orig. pub. 1978.
This informative collection of diverse newspaper articles, sketches, and memoirs reminds us of Samuel Clemens's productive career, his uncanny insight into human nature, and the complex, multifaceted persona of his greatest creation, Mark Twain. In assembling various so-called "fugitive pieces" (xiv) from Twain's journalistic work, the late Paul Fatout provides valuable insight into Clemens's fervent efforts to create and maintain the iconoclastic persona of Mark Twain.
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