Is He Dead? by Mark Twain

Is He Dead? by Mark Twain

Centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture (1997); Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (1993), selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice; and From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (2000), winner of a Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award for outstanding research in journalism history. She is also the editor of the 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain and the Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain. Barry Moser is one of the foremost wood engravers in the United States and is the proprietor of the Pennyroyal Press. Among other books, he illustrated Huckleberry Finn (California, 1985), Moby Dick (California, 1981), Dante's Inferno (California 1980), Purgatorio (California, 1981), and Paradiso (California, 1984), and the Holy Bible (1999). The Mark Twain Project is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's five editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all Mark Twain's writings, more than thirty volumes of which have so far been published by the University of California Press.

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ISBN 13	9780520239791
ISBN 10	0520239792
Title	Is He Dead?
Author	Mark Twain
Series	Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered Rediscovered And Celebrated Writings Of Mark Twain
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2003-10-17
Number of pages	246
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