Career, life, and influence. On Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen ; Biography of Mark Twain / R. Kent Rasmussen ; The Paris review perspective / Sasha Weiss for The Paris review --
Critical contexts. Mark Twain and his times / Stephen Railton ; Mark Twain's critical reception / Alan Gribben ; "Pluck enough to lynch a man": Mark Twain and manhood / Hilton Obenzinger ; Kindred rivals: Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce / Lawrence I. Berkove --
Critical readings. Mark Twain as a travel writer / Larzer Ziff ; The adventures of Tom Sawyer: a nightmare vision of American boyhood / Cynthia Griffin Wolff ; The realism of Huckleberry Finn / Tom Quirk ; "Huckleberry fun" / Everett Carter ; Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith ; Connecticut Yankee: Twain's other masterpiece / Lawrence I. Berkove ; Mark Twain as a science-fiction writer / David Ketterer ; Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis.
