Mark TwainF. Ungar Publishing Company, 1983 - 221 Seiten Miller sketches Twain's life, with its flamboyant successes and devastating personal tragedies, and links it to the works, not only the two that solidified his reputation forever, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but also Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The mysterious stranger. Summarizes the best of Twain scholarship during the last thirty years and reevaluates commonly held assumptions about Twain's attitude towards industry, religion, and race. |
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