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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 686 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 767 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. During this time he wrote and published some of his best-known works, including Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on...
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