Category: Mark Twain Forum Reviews

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910”

Posted on by Barbara Schmidt

Barbara Schmidt reviews Myrick’s and Scharnhorst’s first step in establishing a finding list of Twain photographs, portraits, and cartoons

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Pudd’nhead Wilson: Manuscript and Revised Versions, with “Those Extraordinary Twins”

Posted on by Barbara Schmidt

Barbara Schmidt reviews the new edition of one of Twain’s most well-known texts

Mark Twain Forum Reviews: “Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens”

Posted on by Kevin Mac Donnell

Kevin Mac Donnell gives a review of Barbara Snedecor’s new edition of Livy’s letters

MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “CRITICAL INSIGHTS: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER”

Posted on by David Sloane

David E.E. Sloane offers this review on a collection of essays focusing on THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “America’s Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast” by John Adler

Posted on by Kevin Mac Donnell

Kevin Mac Donnell reviews this massive biography of one of Twain’s professional and personal friends

MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “Mark Twain’s 10 Lessons For A Healthy Democracy: Keeping The Republic” by Donald Tiffany Bliss

Posted on by Kevin Mac Donnell

“Twain’s commentaries on events of his day apply to the present, and Bliss weaves them into a very readable and coherent narrative consistent with Twain’s social and political philosophy.”