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Article: Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews, edited by Louis J. Budd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 656 pp. $125.00 cloth.
WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for the Overland Monthly expressed delight that it was not as funny a book as one might expect from Twain, that its chief virtue was that it contained "more of autobiographic value than of deliberate humor" (Budd, p. 252). This assessment may very well have gratified Twain, coming as it did from a magazine published in Twain's former stomping grounds in the West, San Francisco. Appearing seven years after the publication of The Adventures of Tom ...