Search Results: The Ordeal Of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks

USA: Meridian, 1955. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 256pp. Purple cover sunned on and around spine, light edgewear. Working copy, has some light pencil marginalia throughout.

Paperback / softback. New.

A Publication Of E P Dutton & Company Inc, 1970. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New.

Cleveland/NY.: Meridian Books/World Publishing., (1963).. Mass Market Paperback.. Covers scuffed/lightly soiled, very occasional light underlining/marginalia in pencil: Good+.. 12mo. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley.

MP3 Audio CD. The Ordeal of Mark Twain CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: MARK TWAIN'S DESPAIR "What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."--Marginal note in one of Mark Twain's books. To those who are interested in American life and letters there has been no question of greater significance, during the last few years, than the pessimism of Mark Twain. During the last few years, I say, for his own friends and contemporaries were rather inclined to make light of his oft-expressed belief that man is the meanest of the animals and life a tragic mistake. For some time before his death Mark Twain had appeared before the public in the rôle less of a laughing philosopher than of a somewhat gloomy prophet of modern civilization. But he was old and he had suffered many misfortunes and the progress of society is not a matter for any one to be… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Ordeal of Mark Twain CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: MARK TWAIN'S DESPAIR "What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."--Marginal note in one of Mark Twain's books. To those who are interested in American life and letters there has been no question of greater significance, during the last few years, than the pessimism of Mark Twain. During the last few years, I say, for his own friends and contemporaries were rather inclined to make light of his oft-expressed belief that man is the meanest of the animals and life a tragic mistake. For some time before his death Mark Twain had appeared before the public in the rôle less of a laughing philosopher than of a somewhat gloomy prophet of modern civilization. But he was old and he had suffered many misfortunes and the progress of society is not a matter for any one to be… Read More

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.60 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Meridian Books, 1955. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Hardback. New.

New.

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New.

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1920. Edition Not Stated . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Personalized ex-libris, inside front cover.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.