n the following excerpt from his introduction to "The Devil's Race-Track": Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), Tuckey provides a thematic overview of selected stories from Twain's later years.]

"There is no such figure for the storm-beaten human drift as the derelict," Mark Twain once told his friend and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. The seas in which he voyaged, in his life and his writings, were not only in the earthly ones with their alluring and forbidding vastnesses and remotenesses. His imagination reached out to the uncharted deeps of the universe in which the globe was but a drifting particle, and also inward to the equally unfathomable inner space of the human psyche immersed in the ocean of the unconscious.

It was after he had passed the age of sixty that Mark Twain wrote all of the pieces that appear in ["The Devil's Race-Track": Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings]. In their focus they range from intensely personal matters to the cosmic situation as he......

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