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Other| April 01 2023 Brief Reviews American Literary Realism (2023) 55 (3): 282. https://doi.org/10.5406/19405103.55.3.11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brief Reviews. American Literary Realism 1 April 2023; 55 (3): 282. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19405103.55.3.11 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Literary Realism Search Advanced Search Gary Scott Smith, Mark Twain: Preacher, Prophet, and Social Philosopher. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2021. 272 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Smith's biography is the latest volume in a long tradition in Twain scholarship that includes Louis J. Budd's Mark Twain: Social Philosopher (1964); The Bible According to Mark Twain, edited by Howard Baetzhold and Joseph McCullough (1996); Joe B. Fulton's The Reverend Mark Twain (2006); and Harold Bush's Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age (2007). As a result, it offers mostly warmed-over observations and few new insights. (GS)Alan Gribben, Mark Twain's Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading, volume 2 (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2022). 1088 pp. Cloth, $45.00. The second volume of Gribben's monumental Mark Twain's Literary Resources is not exactly a sequel of his long-out-of-print Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction (1980) but a vastly expanded revision of it. No doubt... You do not currently have access to this content.