Mark Twain's Book of Animals

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Barry Moser and Mark Twain

Literary Criticism : Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject

University of California Press
Publication date: September 2009

ISBN: 9780520944480

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""For those unawareâ¿¿as I was until I read this bookâ¿¿that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place."" â¿¿Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save â¿¿A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent.""â¿¿Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate ""Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't."" â¿¿Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life

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