The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Oxford Mark Twain

Features forewords from numerous literary luminaries, including Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula Le Guin, and Arthur Miller, to name just a few.
Each volume concludes with an afterword by a noteworthy Twain scholar
Provides original facsimiles of the works as they were first published, including charming original illustrations.

The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Description

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.

The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Oxford Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
Introduction: Roy Blount Jr.
Afterword: Richard Bucci
Page Count: 288

The Innocents Abroad
Introduction: Mordecai Richler
Afterword: David E. E. Sloane
Page Count: 784

Roughing It
Introduction: George Plimpton
Afterword: Henry B. Wonham
Page Count: 704

The Gilded Age
Introduction: Ward Just
Afterword: Gregg Camfield
Page Count: 720

Sketches, New and Old
Introduction: Lee Smith
Afterword: Sherwood Cummings
Page Count: 400

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Introduction: E. L. Doctorow
Afterword: Albert E. Stone
Page Count: 368

A Tramp Abroad
Introduction: Russell Banks
Afterword: James S. Leonard
Page Count: 720

The Prince and the Pauper
Introduction: Judith Martin
Afterword: Everett Emerson
Page Count: 496

Life on the Mississippi
Introduction: Willie Morris
Afterword: Lawrence Howe
Page Count: 720

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Introduction: Toni Morrison
Afterword: Victor A. Doyno
Page Count: 464

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Introduction: Kurt Vonnegut
Afterword: Louis J. Budd
Page Count: 656

Merry Tales
Introduction: Anne Bernays
Afterword: Forrest G. Robinson
Page Count: 288

The American Claimant
Introduction: Bobbie Ann Mason
Afterword: Peter Messent
Page Count: 368

The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
Introduction: Malcolm Bradbury
Afterword: James D. Wilson
Page Count: 352

Tom Sawyer Abroad
Introduction: Nat Hentoff
Afterword: Thomas Inge
Page Count: 304

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
Introduction: Sherley Anne Williams
Afterword: David Lionel Smith
Page Count: 512

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Introduction: Justin Kaplan
Afterword: Susan K. Harris
Page Count: 624

The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories
Introduction: Walter Mosley
Afterword: Lillian S. Robinson
Page Count: 720

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Introduction: David Bradley
Afterword: Pascal Covici
Page Count: 336

Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays
Introduction: Gore Vidal
Afterword: Fred Kaplan
Page Count: 880

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays
Introduction: Cynthia Ozick
Afterword: Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
Page Count: 528

The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Introduction: Ursula K. Le Guin
Afterword: Laura E. Skandera-Trombley
Page Count: 304

What Is Man?
Introduction: Charles Johnson
Afterword: Linda Wagner-Martin
Page Count: 224

The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
Introduction: Frederick Busch
Afterword: Judith Yaross Lee
Page Count: 624

Christian Science
Introduction: Garry Wills
Afterword: Hamlin Hill
Page Count: 432

Chapters from My Autobiography
Introduction: Arthur Miller
Afterword: Michael J. Kiskis
Page Count: 368

1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead?
Introduction: Erica Jong
Afterword: Leslie A. Fiedler
Page Count: 256

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven?
Introduction: Frederik Pohl
Afterword: James A. Miller
Page Count: 208

Speeches
Introduction: Hal Holbrook
Afterword: David Barrow
Page Count: 528

The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Oxford Mark Twain

Author Information

Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University, Fishkin is the author, editor or co-editor of over forty books. She is probably the world's most well-known Mark Twain expert and has been featured in popular media speaking on Twain for over twenty years.

The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Oxford Mark Twain

Reviews and Awards

Reviews of the Hardback Edition: "The mammoth new Oxford Mark Twain collection makes a big and valuable splash in the already teeming sea of Twain publishing. These 29 hardback volumes, facsimile editions of works published during Twain's lifetime, make much of his vast oeuvre available to the modern reader in something fairly close to how it looked to his contemporaries."--Salon

"The Oxford Mark Twain is the uniform edition that Twain himself sought to produce in his old age...Every lending library in the English-speaking world should stock them."--The New Statesman

"The great advantage of a collected edition is that it's full of unexplored territory where you can make discoveries (or narrow escapes, in some cases). Savor the original illustrations. Each of these 29 volumes contains a reproduction of an original first edition published during Twain's lifetime. The authentic imitations are sandwiched between lively introductions by mostly famous writers, including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gore Vidal."--EntertainmentWeekly.com

Reviews of the Paperback Edition: "Shelley Fisher Fishkin's creation, back in 1996, of her Oxford edition of Mark Twain's writing was an act of genius. This paperback reissue, time to coincide with the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Huckleberry Finn, is an act of intelligent reverence." --Modern Language Review