A Pen Warmed-Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest

“A Pen Warmed-up in Hell is the newest (1973) package of familiar Mark Twain delights, short pieces of social and political criticism gathered from his novels, letters, magazine articles and manuscripts. They are the responses of a 70 per cent sane man to the 100 per cent bona fide follies of his age; 70 per cent is enough sanity to be fascinating.”—Charles Bazerman, The Nation