Mark Twain's Literary Resources

This second volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources presents the evidence of how Mark Twain, with only a fourth-grade education, read his way through a sizable proportion of the printed media in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an Annotated Catalog, the volume authenticates Twain's familiarity with some six thousand books, stories, essays, poems, plays, songs, magazines, and newspapers. The catalog is arranged from A to Z, with its the entries made accessible by more than ten thousand subject-title index items in an accompanying Reader's Guide. Volume One of Mark Twain's Literary Resources, released in 2019, traced the outlines of Twain's extensive reading, recorded his use of public libraries, identified Twain's favorite (and least-favorite works), and included a Critical Bibliography.