Mark Twain: A LifeSimon and Schuster, 20.09.2005 - 592 Seiten “Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles Times A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture. |
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Apprentice 184851 | |
Rambler 185253 | |
So Far from Home 185356 | |
Sociable Jimmy 187172 | |
The Lion of London 187273 | |
Gilded 187374 | |
Quarry Farm and Nook Farm 187475 | |
The Man in the Moon 1875 | |
It Befell Yt One Did Breake Wind 1876 | |
Gods Fool 1877 | |
Abroad Again 187879 | |
The Language of Water 185658 | |
Ranger 185861 | |
Washoe 186162 | |
A Journalistic Counterculture 186263 | |
Mark TwainMore of Him 1863 | |
Code Duello 186364 | |
A Villainous Backwoods Sketch 186465 | |
And I Began to Talk 186566 | |
On the Road 186667 | |
Back East 1867 | |
movemoveMove 1867 | |
In the Thrall of Mother Bear October 1867New Years Day 1868 | |
A Work Humorously Inclined FebruaryJuly 1868 | |
The Girl in the Miniature July 1868October 1868 | |
American Vandal OctoberDecember 1868 | |
Quite Worthy of the Best 1869 | |
Fairyland 1870 | |
My Hated Nom de Plume 1871 | |
A Personal Hatred for Humbug 1880 | |
A Powerful Good Time 188182 | |
All Right Then 188283 | |
The American Novel 188485 | |
Roll Over Lord Byron 188687 | |
I Have Fed So Full on Sorrows 188790 | |
We Are Skimming Along Like Paupers 1891June 1893 | |
Savior 189394 | |
ThunderStroke 189596 | |
Exile and Return 18961900 | |
Sitting in Darkness 19001905 | |
Chapter the Last | |
Acknowledgments Photographs | |
About the Author | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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