Citizen of the World

re-emerges, but this time with a twist on Brooks's argument: the sophisticated Eastern (and European) worlds did indeed influence Twain's development as an artist, but largely in positive ways, this rich and wide-ranging study asserts. Editors Ann M. Ryan and Joseph B. McCullough have assembled a collection of essays that will continue the recent critical assessments that have begun to see America's frontier backwoods humorist as a