Synopses & Reviews
Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a
wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the
author's life and times.
Review
"This now indispensable volume...will go on creating sections for the truly new, compounding, recasting, and emending successive states of itself."--Woolf Studies Annual
Synopsis
This book, enormously expanded by the inclusion of new items that have appeared since the Third Edition of 1980, describes all of Virginia Woolf's publications: books, pamphlets, articles (including unsigned articles tracked down in periodicals and newspapers), translations, foreign editions, uncollected letters, miscellania, and manuscripts. It is an essential reference tool for all those seriously interested in Woolf, whether student, scholar, collector, or enthusiast.
Table of Contents
Preface
A. Books and Pamphlets
AA. Composite Editions
B. Contributions to Books and Pamphlets, and Books Translated by Virginia Woolf
C. Contributions to Periodicals and Newspapers
D. Translations into Foreign Languages
E. Foreign Editions in English and Miscellaneous Printed Material
F. Books and Articles containing Uncollected Letters and Extracts from Uncollected Letters
G. Manuscripts
Index