Mark Twain's Letters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1853-1866
- Setting: Various locales, primarily Nevada and San Francisco
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Novelists, Letter writing, Mines, miners, or mining, Letters
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Nevada
This work is the initial volume of Mark Twain's letters but the eighteenth volume in the comprehensive and scholarly edition of Twain's works and papers which the University of California Press has been systematically publishing since 1967. This first volume contains every known letter that Twain wrote from the ages of seventeen to thirty-one, and half the letters here have never been published before. The Berkeley Twain Project is a vast and ambitious one, and the letters alone will take many more volumes, for Twain wrote more than ten thousand letters in his seventy-five years...
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