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Format:

Book

Author:

Kaplan, Justin.

Title:

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain : a biography / Justin Kaplan.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 preliminary leaf, 424, [1] pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Summary:

"Although this biography of Mark Twain begins when Twain is 31 ... the book is a full account of Twain, his life and his work related both to his early years and to the 'Gilded Age' of his mature life."

Subjects:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, pseud. de Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark, (1835-1910) -- Biographies.

Twain, Mark.

1800-1899

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.

Authors, American.

Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies.

Authors, American

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.

Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle.

Authors, American 19th century Biography

Twain, Mark 1835-1910

Genre:

Biography

Biography.

Biographies

Biographies.

Other Author:

Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index.

Also issued online.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967.

Contents:

"A roving commission" -- "The tide of a great popular movement" -- "The fortune of my life" -- "I do not live backwards" -- "Little Sammy in fairy land" -- "A popular author's death rattle" -- "I did not know I was a lion" -- "Era of incredible rotteness" -- "Busiest white man in America" -- Spirits of '76 -- "The free air of Europe" -- "Everything a man could have" -- "Our great century" -- The yankee and the machine -- "Get me out of business!" -- "Never quite sane in the night" -- "Whited sepulchre."

LCCN:

66017603

ISBN:

0671207075

9780671207076

Other Number:

254405

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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Control Number:

22664

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Call Number:

BIO Twain