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A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest
A Pen WarmedUp in Hell Mark Twain in Protest Author:Mark Twain "'A Pen Warmed-up in Hell' is the newest package of familiar Mark Twain delights, short pieces of social and political criticism gathered from his novels, letters, magazine articles, and manuscripts. They are the responses of a 70 percent sane man to the 100 percent bona fide follies of his age; 70 percent is enough sanity to be fascinating." — ... more »-Charles Bazerman, The Nation
"It proves once again that in the absence of a contemporary Mark Twain to deal with our follies and horrors the old one will do very well indeed."
-Justin Kaplan
"Here is a book that is a pleasure to recommend. A collection of angry pieces by Twain with a superb introduction, as well as an afterpiece of notes on his selections, by the editor...[This is] a collection to be dipped into time and again."