Mark Twain might seem like an unlikely admirer of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyam, who wrote a series of brooding meditations on human existence before he died in the twelfth century. . . . An avid reader of all types of literature, however, Twas was bound to encounter the intense vogue for…
Month: March 2017
“Tom Sawyer, Tom Canty, and Huckleberry Finn: The Boy Book and Mark Twain”
It is easy to forget that Twain actually left behind a third Boy Book besides Tom Sawyer and the Boy Book that far excelled its genre, Huckleberry Finn. Intervening between these publications, and composed during the same period when Twain was by turns, also completing Huckleberry Finn, was a novel hardly ever taught today, The Prince…
Dr. Alan Gribben, Scholar and Editor 