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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Volume 9

Mark Twain 

(Author)

Henry Nash Smith 

(Introduction by)
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Description

This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent erros, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these corrupt editions and added errors of their own. It is the aim of the Iowa-California edition to strip away this accretion of error and present texts faithful to the author's intention. By comparing all the life-time versions of Mark Twain's works, the editors are able to isolate the author's revisions from the printer's and publishers' changes. The record of this comparison supplies not only the evidence for editorial decisions, but also the history of the author's efforts to shape his work. In addition, these volumes included previously uncollected work, work that has long been out of print, and such unpublished writing as related drafts, working notes, and marginalia. The texts are established at the Center for Textual Studies at the University of Iowa or at the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateDecember 12, 1979
Pages848
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780520036215
Dimensions9.2 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches | 2.5 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Bernard L. Stein was until recently an editor on the staff of the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Henry Nash Smith is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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"One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. . . . If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have." "London Telegraph [Michael Shelden]

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