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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
There are several nonfiction Mark Twain books that have been on my TBR for a long time such as Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It and The Innocents Abroad.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Whenever I see "nonfiction Mark Twain" I always think of his "it's funny 'cos it's true" piece on the German language  |
I’ve read
Life on the Mississippi and
The Innocents Abroad fairly recently.
Life was wonderful;
Innocents was more rollicking good fun and nothing wrong with that.
Uncle Robin’s post reminds me that perhaps my favorite Twain of all is the posthumous collection of essays,
Letters from the Earth on topics of religion and morality, which is sidesplitting, at least in my memory. I do think perhaps he’s at his best in this type of essay; the incisesiveness can be hard to sustain over the course of a book and both longer nonfiction works that I mentioned above have their slow spots.