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Mark Twain on the Present War
January 31, 1918 issue

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The article presents an overview of the book "Mark Twain's Letters," by Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain looked forward to a future life, of a sort. He anticipated a resurrection in his own familiar world. The zest of life beyond the tomb was to consist in uttering frankly a quantity of thoughts and feelings which in his days of mortality he had bowdlerized or suppressed in deference to proper public. The letters were of course drawn upon for the biography, and the collection of common man does not greatly alter total impression of the man. The correspondence has naturally similar points of interest in its accounts of a long, adventurous, various life and in its comment upon all sorts of important personages and events.

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MARK Twain's Letters (Book); PAINE, Albert Bigelow; PERSONALITY; MORTALITY; EVERYDAY life; BIOGRAPHY
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