Who Is Mark Twain?

<p><strong>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. -- <em>Vanity Fair</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Who Is Mark Twain?</em> is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens--aka Mark Twain--none of which have ever been published before.</strong></p><p>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stove Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted.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. <em>Who Is Mark Twain?</em> presents twenty-six wickedly funny disarmingly relevant pieces by the American master--a man who was well ahead of his time.<br/></p>