Mark Twain
The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:21st Apr '11
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Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain's life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.
"An informative new biography." New York Review Of Books "Funny and informative... This could be the biography of the season." San Francisco Chronicle "Excellent... The biographer proves an adept guide." Wall Street Journal "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens works well for the general reader." -- James E. Caron Studies In American Humor "Serves up a balanced literary biography of a crowded life." Publishers Weekly "Funny, fresh, and informative." Toronto Globe & Mail "Provocative and well-reasoned." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A fresh interpretive perspective... Readers will value this portrait of a peripatetic genius traversing a wide swath of American culture." Booklist "Bids fair, as they used to say, to be a standard life." New Yorker
ISBN: 9780520269859
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
Weight: 771g
520 pages