Mark Twain

MB dedicated The Glen o' Weeping, her third historical novel, to Mark Twain , in gratitude for his support of her first book, The Viper of Milan.

Morris's mother, who liked to have several books in different languages on the go at the same time, taught eclectic reading to her child. Both Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn made a great impression...

Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire 's Candide, Swift 's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde 's The Sphinx, and Twain 's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...

It was before he became famous as Mark Twain that Clemens became Stowe's neighbour on Forest Street, Hartford.

On this tour she met both with President Theodore Roosevelt and with Mark Twain .

In the USAEG met Mark Twain , whom she thought the wittiest creature imaginable.

Jean Pfaelzer has admired its world of complex moral choices. As an ambitious but weak man who is easily tempted by social pressures,Pfaelzer argues that Andross prefigures characters such as William Dean Howells

The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time and used it as...

Willa Cather , in her preface to a collection of SOJ 's Best Stories (1925), reflected a common critical perception in suggesting that Jewett would go down in literary history as a regional writer: the...

The novel had six editions before November 1908; its instant success brought sometimes unwanted celebrity to the author. She was pleased, however, to receive an admiring letter from Mark Twain . Many of the reviews...

Other commentators, such as Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley , however, valued the uniqueness of her style. Twain found her enchanting. Huxley cited her as highly prized by her readers, and wrote of...

EG 's close friend Lady Warwick , when shown the finished manuscript of this book, warned EG not to publish it, or she would tarnish or ruin her reputation. Indeed, the novel did...

Critically, the book was very well received. Edward Wagenknecht in the New York Times Book Review enthused over MB 's settings, calling her a genius in the creation of atmosphere, and stated that...

Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation.SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...

MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...