Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences & Is Shakespeare Dead?

by Mark Twain

Overview

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is known as one of America's most outstanding authors, among his works the most famous of which is Huckberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. But Twain was also a brilliant essayist and literary critic. In Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, Twain takes aim at and derides the work of author James Fenimore Cooper, jeering at, for example, Cooper's portrayal of the American Indian. Is Shakespeare Dead?, for its part, covers the controversy over who authored Shakespeare's works through satire and anecdote.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849023085
Publisher:	Benediction Classics
Publication date:	09/06/2011
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut