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Mark Twain

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"Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn "the best book we've ever had. There was nothing before. There's been nothing as good since." Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain "makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been possible." He was the most famous American of his day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American writer.

Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".

"This book pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely his justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries, letters, and 275 illustrations and photographs from throughout his life. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens's boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker - when he adopted the sobriquet "Mark Twain" - to his varied careers as a newspaperman, printer, and author.

They follow him from the home he built in Hartford, Connecticut, to his peripatetic travels across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. We see Twain grieve over his favorite daughter's death, and we see him writing and noticing everything."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
269

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Cover of: Mark Twain
Mark Twain
2001, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Mark Twain
Mark Twain
2001, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.409, B
Library of Congress
PS1331 .W37 2001, PS1331.W37 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 269 p. :
Number of pages
269

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3947015M
Internet Archive
marktwain00ward
ISBN 10
0375405615
LCCN
2001033820
OCLC/WorldCat
46976428
Library Thing
843706
Goodreads
99138

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