Mark Twain's Literary Resources: Twain's Collection, Owned and Borrowed (Volume Two)

Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.

Author: Alan Gribben
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 1125
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.71lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 2.25d
ISBN: 9781588383952

About the Author
Gribben, Alan: - Alan Gribben, editor and publisher of the Mark Twain Journal: The Author and His Era, is the biographer of the University of Texas library founder Harry Ransom, editor of the NewSouth Edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader, and author of dozens of articles on Twain's intellectual background. For fifteen years he reviewed books and articles about Mark Twain for American Literary Scholarship, An Annual. Dr. Gribben co-founded and served as president of the Mark Twain Circle of America. He has been recognized with a Henry Nash Smith Fellowship from the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College and other honors for his scholarship and teaching. Auburn University at Montgomery, where he was head of the Department of English and Philosophy for two decades, awarded him a Distinguished Research Professorship and the Nance Alumni Professorship.