Mark Twain: By The Riverside - Favourite Sayings of Mark Twain
He was salty, irreverent, funny, tender. He seemed to have received his gift of language from the gods on Mt. Olympus. He seemed to have received his emotions from the very heart of America.
"By the Riverside," through excerpts from his speeches, books, and commentaries, gives us the essential Twain — commenting on women, the attractions of Eve, children, conformity, public opinion, morality, and the many vices of Mark Twain himself. These writings are made all the more delightful by the accompanying photographs of Hannibal, Missouri, and Mississippi River.