Annotated Bibliography

Websites

I.  http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/about/photos.htm 

This website has many facts about Mark Twain including a list of his works and the year published.  This site is a good source to find information on Mark Twain as well as his literature.

II.   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081377/ 

This website is about “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”, the movie, which was aired in 1981.  The quality of this website is not that great; however I thought this site was interesting because I had not known that Mark Twain’s short story was made into a movie.

III. http://books.google.com/booksid=rKDpaL_3OqUC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=the+private+history+of+a+campaign+that+failed+critique&source=bl&ots=2LM0YdqgqZ&sig=oQEqtQGbT54XTu12LpUkD7boL6M&hl=en&ei=It0qSuerMcSJtgfy4ezICA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

This website is an online version of the book, “The Short Works of Mark Twain; A Critical Study, which analyzes Mark Twains works, and gives a more in-depth meaning to what Mark Twain wrote about.  I think this website is very interesting and it makes one think about what Twain was really writing about in his fictional stories, which included “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”.

Journal Articles

I.  Brashear, Minnie M. “MARK TWAIN JUVENILIA.” American Literature 2.1 (Mar. 1930): 25. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. 6 June 2009.

This article is based on Mark Twain’s childhood and his experiences growing up.  It is interesting because it crtiques his writings and refers to situations from his childhood that could have inspired the stories and characters that Mark Twain wrote about.

II.  Lorch, Fred W. “MARK TWAIN AND THE “CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED”.” American Literature 12.4 (Jan. 1941): 454. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. 6 June 2009. 

This article anaylzes “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed” and questions Twain’s role in the war.  It argues how the story is supposed to be fiction, but some aspects relate to Samuel Clemens as well.   

III.  Gerber, John C. “Mark Twain’s Use of the Comic Pose”.  PMLA, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Jun., 1962), pp. 297-304.  2 June 2009.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/460489

This Article is about the use of point of view and humor in Mark Twain’s writing.  This article is interesting because it digs deep into what the meanings are behind the point of view and humor that is used in the stories.    

Link to the online version of Mark Twain’s ”The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”

 http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/phctf.html