Mark Twain 
Who Is Mark Twain? 

More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern. . . . Ninety-nine years after his death, Twain still manages to get the last laugh. Vanity Fair Who Is Mark Twain?is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemensaka Mark Twainnone of which have ever been published before."You had better shove this in the stove, " Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don’t want any absurd literary remains’ and unpublished letters of Mark Twain’ published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author.Who Is Mark Twain?presents twenty-six wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American mastera man who was well ahead of his time.