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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20020113
Author:Roger K. Miller

Mark Twain

The Gilded Age and Later Novels. Edited by Hamlin L. Hill. Library of America. 1,053 pages. $40.

Has anyone ever read Tom Sawyer Abroad? Anyone, that is, aside from today's scholars and those who read it when it was first published in 1894?

If you haven't, here's your chance, though--fair warning--it gives ammunition to those who criticize the inclusivist policies of the Library of America in publishing the lesser works of our great writers and the better works of our less great writers. The present volume is the sixth and final one in the LOA's collection of Mark Twain's writings, ...

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