Terese Marie Mailhot ; with an introduction by Sherman Alexie and an afterword by Joan Naviyuk Kane. Marilyn French ; with an introduction by the author and an afterword by Susan Faludi. Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Justin Kaplan and a new afterword by John Seelye. translated and with an introduction by Robert Harrison and a new afterword by Guy Gavriel Kay. Brian Aldiss ; with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and a new afterword by Brian Aldiss. Henry David Thoreau ; with an introduction by W.S. Merwin and a new afterword by William Howarth. with an introduction by Stephen Spender and an afterword by William T. Vollmann. with an introduction by Deborah Steiner and a new afterword by Adam Nicolson. H. G. Wells ; with a new introduction by Nita A. Farahany and an afterword by John L. Flynn. Mark Twain ; with an introduction by Robert S. Tilton and a new afterword by Geoffrey Sanborn.