Mark Twain The Fate of Humor

In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor,James M. Cox pursues the development of Mark Twain's humor through all the forms it took from "The Jumping Frog" toThe Mysterious Stranger.Instead of seeking the seriousness behind the humor, Cox concentrates upon the humor itself as the transfiguring power that converted all the "serious" issues and emotions of Mark Twain's life and time into narratives designed to evoke helpless laughter. In those sudden moments of pleasurable helplessness, we glimpse the great heart of a writer who imagined freedom in the slave society of his youth and discovered slavery in the free country of his old age. For this edition ofMark Twain: The Fate of Humor,the author has written a new introduction showing how and why Mark Twain remains a central figure in American life; he has also appended an essay disclosing whyAdventures of Huckleberry Finnwill always be a hard book to take.Cox, James M. is the author of 'Mark Twain The Fate of Humor' with ISBN 9780826214287 and ISBN 0826214282.