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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age

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From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20070601
Author:Browne, Ray B

Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age Harold K. Bush, Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

In trying to gauge the soundings of the deep and complex writer Mark Twain it is always helpful to have new approaches and new points of view. Though Twain's Mississippi was perhaps not as deep as Herman Melville's whale's depths, Twain is at times as difficult to understand and for us to be satisfied with our conclusions. The author of this book aligns himself "with numerous influential thinkers today who envision Christian faith more as a social phenomenon than as chiefly a ...

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