MARK TWAIN'S NOTEBOOKS AND JOURNALS: Volume 11 (1877-1883)

The ninth to appear of this projected fifteen-volume series of the previously unpublished writings of Mark Twain includes the notebooks from his sojourn abroad -- the ""European experience"" so crucial to the American of the Jamesian 19th century; and his subsequent reflections on his Missouri childhood. A period of significant intellectual growth, from Western humorist and adventure writer to literary man of the world, handled with exemplary scholarship by the editors.