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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he’s become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain’s books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century “boy’s holiday book” (Twain’s own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view–he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that “annihilation has no terrors for me”). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt dict (more…)

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