Selected Letters of Mark Twain

"[Twain] wrote thousands of letters....It's admittedly impossible to condense all this into a mere three hundred pages....But what's really bothersome about the Neider edition is not so much the omission of particular letters as the intentional omission of certain sides of Twain's character....The trouble is that these other sides of Twain are what made him comic and humane--his own follies were the source of his insight....There are, however, dozens of wonderful letters in this book, on every possible subject....Neider, Charles is the author of 'Selected Letters of Mark Twain', published 1999 under ISBN 9780815410119 and ISBN 0815410115.