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Mark Twain (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)

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Mark Twain is best known as the author of the quintessentially American novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the work from which, in Ernest Hemingway’s judgment, all modern American writing derives and in which neither mystery nor detection plays any significant role. Of the novel’s two murders, one, Pap Finn’s, is quickly disposed of in the final page and the other, Huck’s feigning his own death, is, for all the brilliance of the plan and the...

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• Mark Twain (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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• Mark Twain (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Mark Twain (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Mark Twain (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Mark Twain (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

See Also:

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Masterplots Classics)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Censorship)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Character Profiles)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Literary Places)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Magill Book Reviews)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Character Profiles)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Literary Places)
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Autobiography of Mark Twain, The (Juvenile Literature)
• Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (Short Stories)
• Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Chronicle of Young Satan, The (Short Stories)
• Gilded Age, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Gilded Age, The (Character Profiles)
• Gilded Age, The (Literary Places)
• Jim Baker’s Bluejay Yarn (Short Stories)
• Life on the Mississippi (Masterplots Classics)
• Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The (Short Stories)
• Mark My Words (Magill Book Reviews)
• Mark Twain’s Book for Bad Boys and Girls (Magill Book Reviews)
• Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4 (Magill Book Reviews)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1 (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Mysterious Stranger, A Romance, The (Character Profiles)
• Mysterious Stranger, The (Short Stories)
• £1,000,000 Bank Note, The (Short Stories)
• Prince and the Pauper, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Prince and the Pauper, The (Character Profiles)
• Prince and the Pauper, The (Literary Places)
• Prince and the Pauper, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Quotable Mark Twain, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Roughing It (Masterplots Classics)
• Science Fiction of Mark Twain, The (Science Fiction)
• True Story, A (Short Stories)
• Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Picaresque Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Southern Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Late Nineteenth Century: 1840-1880, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Science-Fiction Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Supernatural Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)