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1601 / Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
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19th Century, American Fiction, Romance
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Excerpt from 1601 / Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors:
...reverent irreverences left to make fun of." —[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine]
Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, "O that we had a Rabelais!" Mark impishly and anonymously—submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In...
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