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freesharon
Centennial Attendee
Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:57 am Posts: 134
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Mark Twain complete works
Perhaps there is a better place for this thread, but I am looking for recommendations for a Complete Works of Twain, or some combination of sets that amounts to the complete works. I would prefer hardback books to ebooks. The sets I've seen referred to as 'complete' are, actually, only unabridged. In rereading the fantasies and the Off the Main Sequence collections recently, I realized I can no longer put off a thorough reading of my favorite author's favorite authors. Any and all helpful responses are appreciated.
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JamesGifford
PITA Bred
Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
Running Press did two volumes years ago - you should still be able to find secondhand copies. As far as I can tell, they contain all the Twain worth having on the shelf. Even the editor admits, in the foreword to the second volume, that there will not be a third because he's run out of first-rate work to include.
Twain wrote a vast amount of stuff, a very large proportion of which is only of interest to the very dedicated reader or scholar. I suspect by "complete" you mean all of the good stuff.
The RP books have the downside of being very fat volumes, a bit hard to manage for casual reading. OTOH, there's a lovely companion volume of everything Poe wrote.
_________________ "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders." - Luther In the end, I found Heinlein is finite. Thus, finite analysis is needed.
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Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:34 am |
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JackKelly
NitroForum Oldster
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:57 am Posts: 669 Location: DC Metro
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
My grandmother, before she passed away in 1980, passed along to me a leather-bound single-volume "Complete Works of Mark Twain" published in 1923. It is printed on onion-skin paper, and, while I don't think it actually contains his "complete works," does contain an astounding amount of material.
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Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:44 pm |
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BillPatterson
Heinlein Biographer
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:33 pm Posts: 1024
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Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:48 pm |
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RobertWFranson
NitroForum Oldster
Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:57 pm Posts: 152
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
The Library of America edition is extremely good and at last has I think all of the important and many of the lesser works -- although, as pointed out above, is not "complete". The volumes can be purchased individually or as a set.
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:04 am |
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PeterScott
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 2236 Location: Pacific NorthWest
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
If it doesn't contain "The Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper," it is neither complete nor adequate for my library.
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:19 pm |
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JamesGifford
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Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
"For he was a Cooper Indian, too" is a common phrase around here.
_________________ "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders." - Luther In the end, I found Heinlein is finite. Thus, finite analysis is needed.
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:45 pm |
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RobertJames
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:05 am Posts: 375
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
If there is a twig, he will step on it and break it, loudly....
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:47 pm |
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RobertWFranson
NitroForum Oldster
Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:57 pm Posts: 152
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
Classic hilarity in literary criticism:
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" "Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses"
Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910
_________________ http://www.Troynovant.com/ - recurrent inspiration
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:47 pm |
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sogrady
Joined: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:48 am Posts: 1
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Re: Mark Twain complete works
For trans-continental hilarity, "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget" are unparalleled. "Cannibalism In The Cars"! I'm cracking up just thinking about it. My grandfather died leaving a 26 volume set from Harper and Brothers. I grabbed them when nobody was looking, and made the irrevocable mistake of reading them during my teenage years. I urge you to protect your children from such disaster, rather encourage them to become productive citizens and responsible adults. I understand that a new complete scholarly edition of the autobiography is forthcoming. I fear for the future. Scott
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Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:44 am |
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