Essays
Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture
Ms. Fishkin's "reflections on Mark Twain and American culture" are an illuminating companion to any consideration of Twain's work. -- The New York Times Book Review, David Walton
Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture
These historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history range from explorations of feminist humor and
chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists' challenges to cultural paradigms.
book series
The Oxford Mark Twain
Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark Twain speaks to us across time with verve and wisdom. On the occasion of the centennial of his death, Oxford is issuing a paperback set of our landmark 29 volume collection, The Oxford Mark Twain. In addition to gathering together most of the writings ever published by Twain in the U.S., each volume is introduced by one of our most eminent writers. Their essays combine critical insights and personal appreciations of Twain as a fellow writer. An interpretive essay by a leading scholar that sets the book in its context concludes each volume. At the heart of each is a facsimile edition of Twain's original which captures its contemporary flavor. Many include original illustrations which suggest the life and times of the books in a way that other editions cannot. This remarkable offering will be treasured by all lovers of literature.
Anthology
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
"Mark Twain's Book of Animals is a work that can easily be enjoyed by the casual reader of Twain and certainly qualifies as an essential volume for the devoted Twain scholar."
—Mark Twain Forum
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works
The Mark Twain Anthology brings together the words of over 60 writers, from his earliest reviewers to today, probing the many facets of Mark Twain: his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, his irreverence and skepticism, his profound grappling with issues of race, his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
