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Ooh, this one sounds interesting. It featured prominently in "Printer's Error" a book I read recently, in chapters about C19 USA's rather different approach to copyright/IP issues then versus now, and how that affected Dickens financially as well as impacting his perception of the US and vice versa. |
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I like these nonfiction Dickens suggestions especially American Notes.
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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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. |
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I've been meaning to read some Chekov. Maybe the Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress? Is that right.
I've also a loan of the daunting 2 volume "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" glaring at men from behind the bed. I need to prioritise. |
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The same for me. I remember reading A Tramp Abroad a great many years ago, and laughing so much I nearly dropped the book. Suffice to say that he and his friend barely walked anywhere as they kept on getting rides with others.
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For Wells, I read the Island of Dr. Moreau for the book club here but haven't read War of the Worlds or The invisible Man, and I think I read parts or most of The Time Machine when I was young but don't remember. I haven't read any of those Dickens or Twain mentioned. I haven't been so enamoured with the two Twain books I've read (Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court); some of his witty quotes I've read are great but in book form his writing hasn't grabbed me yet (a bit like Oscar Wilde in that regard). Still, I have Huckleberry Finn on my tbr so I'm definitely interested in reading more of him and would love to try his nonfiction; maybe it would suit me better... and even if it doesn't, it might be fun to be a naysaying counterpoint in a discussion. ![]() Last edited by sun surfer; 04-30-2021 at 01:41 PM. |
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As a southerner, I have a love-hate relationship with Twain. I appreciate his humor. I don't appreciate some of the exaggerated stereotypes he saddled us with that persist to this day.
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The Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote is currently $1.99; price set by HarperCollins so that should be good all over (the US, that is).
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Sorry - put into the wrong thread.
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