Mark Twain - "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
Twain also ripped Charles Dickens up pretty good, and he said of Jane Austen "It's a shame they let her die of natural causes"
Mark Twain - "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
Twain also ripped Charles Dickens up pretty good, and he said of Jane Austen "It's a shame they let her die of natural causes"
I missed this the first time around, but Cooper immediately came to mind. Odly enough, I have seen people slam Twain, but I can't imagine why, unless they are illiterate.Originally Posted by keilj
Dickens would have been a good writer, if he had learned to edit his work.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
Yeah, the only criticisms of Twain that I have seen focus on his Tom Sawyer books - which were really a small part of his overall body of work. The bulk to Twain's books were adult, filled with humor, satire, and pathos.
And anyone who has read Twain should see that his command of the written word is nearly second to none
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