Reviews for Mark Twain's Notebooks & journals

The average rating for Mark Twain's Notebooks & journals based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-11 00:00:00 Pat Bean My favorite two essays or stories in this journal are English as She is Wrote and Jim's Investments, and King Sollermon. The others were entertaining but not nearly as funny. I love Jim's homespun logic as he discusses King Solomon with Huck. And all the misuse of words and misplaced geography in English as She is Wrote is priceless. I had previously read the story about the duel. Otherwise I might have included it in my favorites in this volume since it is also quite funny in typical Twain style.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-12 00:00:00 Lisa Simpson Okay, this is cheating on my part, but it is good some version of the Journal is out there (so go get it, dear ones). What I have, and have had since purchase in the early 1970's, is the Dover two volume complete journals of Thoreau, every little observed gnat or weed, every small exclamation of awe or beauty, every depressed rumination over friendship. It was in his journals that our Henry worked out what would become his essays and his books; where he polishes phrases and notes the bloom time of every plant in Concord. If you can locate this complete version, and if you are in love with HD (chastely)...seize it. The set cost me 50 dollars back in the day, and was worth every hard earned penny.