Sentence examples for noted twain from inspiring English sources
In 1970, when the library invited a noted Twain scholar to examine the collection, he helped round up a few stragglers still lurking in the stacks.
However, the noted Twain scholar Justin Kaplan said that in 1902, the author made fragmentary notes indicating that he contemplated the idea.
The novelist Russell Banks notes why Twain's perspective was so radical.
"Perhaps it is some type of karma that this well-travelled writer should have his family's library collection spread out across the land," says Gribben, noting the Twain family owned more than 3,000 books, and the humourist is known to have read nearly 5,000 literary works.
These meticulously edited texts are also reprinted, with explanatory notes but without the full scholarly apparatus of the critical editions, in The Mark Twain Library, a popular trade edition that is available in both cloth and paper covers.
Among many resources, the Mark Twain Project Online stands out, providing access to a galaxy of "reliable texts, exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents".
But Mr. Safer didn't mention Twain.
HARTFORD The Mark Twain House and Museum "The Wandering Book," lecture on Twain-related mysteries.
Twain, notes Neider, despite having spent his youth on Mississippi river boats and in Western mining camps, had a rather Victorian attitude.
And then there's a 1903 note by Twain that might ordinarily be overlooked, so insignificant does it seem: an answer to a correspondent who challenged Twain's argument that lying can sometimes be a virtue.
