| Description |
424 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967. |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. (OCoLC)fst00031622
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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| ISBN |
0671207075 |
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9780671207076 |
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