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Mark Twain's American Adam: humor as hope and apocalypse.(Critical Essay)
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In the fall of 1879, Mark Twain enlisted many of the most prominent members of Elmira society into his rather preposterous scheme to erect a memorial to Adam as "the Father of the Human Race." A committee, called the "Adam Monument Association of Elmira," was appointed to select a sculptor. This association, which included local minister Thomas K. Beecher as president, went so far as to have letterhead produced. In their zeal they proclaimed, "The monument will rise. It only awaits approval of the model" (qtd. in Jerome and Wisbey 83). In his essay titled "A Monument to Adam" that ...
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We wanted Adam to be happy and he obviously is. These people really do care.(News)
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