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Mark Twain and Human Nature
From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20080601
Author:Browne, Ray B
Mark Twain and Human Nature Tom Quirk. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Mark Twain continues to be thought America's, and the world's, great author/examiner of the human condition. He floats down and up the broad Mississippi of human nature searching for the small and great fishes that will explain and justify mankind's treatment of itself and God and the latter's exile of mankind. Twain does not find this justification because only God is privy to His actions and motivations, but Quirk discovers some minnows and monsters to help us understand not human nature but Mark Twain. The ...
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