Comments on: A Scapegoat for Promiscuous Drunks, Friendly Calls, and Humbug Resolutions http://biblioklept.org/2008/12/31/a-scapegoat-for-promiscuous-drunks-friendly-calls-and-humbug-resolutions/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Novista http://biblioklept.org/2008/12/31/a-scapegoat-for-promiscuous-drunks-friendly-calls-and-humbug-resolutions/#comment-7473 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:24:32 +0000 http://biblioklept.org/?p=1486#comment-7473 yes … ed bibliokept provided a good comment.

I would also recommend two compilations of essays: “A Pen Warmed Up in Hell” and “The Damned Human Race” (off the top of my head … too lazy to go into the library and find the trade paperbacks reissued on the 60′s) but Google is your friend. :-)

Some of these pieces were not published in his lifetime. As the ‘great American humorist” they would not have been well received by the jingoists of the day.

]]> By: ed biblioklept http://biblioklept.org/2008/12/31/a-scapegoat-for-promiscuous-drunks-friendly-calls-and-humbug-resolutions/#comment-6922 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:18:14 +0000 http://biblioklept.org/?p=1486#comment-6922 Yeah. He wrote a book called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels. It’s an exercise in different voices, a kind of dialogic carnival of American accent, if you will. In some ways, it mirrors the biblical tale of Moses, an orphan who comes to free his people from oppression. To this day, the novel is widely misunderstood, criticized–often unread–for it’s prodigious use of the word “nigger.” (Admittedly, the final few chapters should be skipped).
Twain (a pseudonym; his real name was Samuel Clemens) was also famous for his children’s book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, as well as novels like The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. One of Twain’s great masterpieces that remains under-read today is Pudd’nhead Wilson, a story of race, inheritance, and mistaken identity.
Twain remains a beloved yet controversial author, a staple in the American canon whose work reaches beyond the Gilded Age and into our own time, commenting on our own lives today.

]]> By: longlunch http://biblioklept.org/2008/12/31/a-scapegoat-for-promiscuous-drunks-friendly-calls-and-humbug-resolutions/#comment-6921 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:47:01 +0000 http://biblioklept.org/?p=1486#comment-6921 this guy is FUNNY! did he write anything else?

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