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Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works

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Lectures delivered by Professor Stephen Railton, University of Virginia

Needing no introduction? -- From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain -- Sense of Mark Twain's humor -- Marketing Twain -- Innocents abroad, I: going East -- Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn -- Roughing it going West -- Lecture tours -- Whittier after dinner speech -- Old times on the Mississippi -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Performances of Tom Sawyer