Mark Twain:

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

— Mark Twain Modern

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist

Context

Letter to William Dean Howells

Date / Period

1898

Source

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Explanation

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Method

Cross Reference

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