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Mark Twain: First Hand Insight Into One of the Greatest Author's of All Time - Including Great Photos! (Timeless Classic Books)
Mark Twain First Hand Insight Into One of the Greatest Author's of All Time Including Great Photos - Timeless Classic Books Author:Archibald Henderson It is an appreciation originating in the heart of one who loved Mark Twain's works for a generation before he ever met Samuel L. Clemens. It is an interpretation springing from the conviction that Mark Twain was a great American who comprehensively incorporated and realized his own country and his own age as no American has so completely done be... more »fore him; a supreme humorist who ever wore the panache of youth, gaiety, and bonhomie; a brilliant wit who never dip-ped his darts in the poison of cynicism, misanthropy, or despair; constitutionally a reformer who, heedless of self, boldly struck for the right as he saw it; a philosopher and sociologist who intuitively understood the secret springs of human motive and impulse, and empirically demonstrated that intuition in works which crossed frontiers, survived translation, and went straight to the human, beneath the disguise of the racial; a genius who lived to know and enjoy the happy rewards of his own fame; a great man who saw life steadily and saw it whole. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON. LONDON, August 5, 1910.« less