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Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts Volume 1 Paperback - 2006

by Mark Twain; Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor); Barry Moser (Illustrator)

A farcical comedy about the "value" of art by America's master satirist, the piece was ignored in its time, but it is stage worthy today. Introduction and notes by a well-known Twain scholar.


From the jacket flap

"This is another gold nugget in the treasure house of Mark Twain. That he could have spun out such a rollicking satire on the hypocrisy of the art world, delivered in the spirit of 'Charley's Aunt, ' while his own spirit battled the ghosts of personal loss, is another beacon to the wild and surprising genius of Mark Twain. Shelley Fisher Fishkin has done it again, giving us the fruits of eye-opening, double-fathom research, pursuing nearly virgin byways of Mark Twain's literary and social life and showing us how that colorful world affected the temper of his mind. I learned things I never knew while racing through this book."Hal Holbrook"

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  • Title Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts Volume 1
  • Author Mark Twain; Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Editor); Barry Moser (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date June 14, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520248335 / 0520248333
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.36 x 5.38 x 0.66 in (18.69 x 13.67 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects Death, Artists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003050703
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.4

About the author

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture (1997); Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (1993), selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice; and From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (2000), winner of a Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award for outstanding research in journalism history. She is also the editor of the 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain and the Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain. Barry Moser is one of the foremost wood engravers in the United States and is the proprietor of the Pennyroyal Press. Among other books, he illustrated Huckleberry Finn (California, 1985), Moby Dick (California, 1981), Dante's Inferno (California 1980), Purgatorio (California, 1981), and Paradiso (California, 1984), and the Holy Bible (1999). The Mark Twain Project is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's five editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all Mark Twain's writings, more than thirty volumes of which have so far been published by the University of California Press.
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