A collection of essays explores the life of the nineteenth-century author and humorist and the impact of his writings on American arts, culture, and society.
“More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.
An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.
With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition.
Mark Twain Essays Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature.
Ever. True to Huck’s voice, this picture book biography is a river boat ride into the life of a real American treasure.
Contains nearly every piece of major fiction that Mark Twain created in its totally unabridged state.
These Mark Twain speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family’s extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age ...
Mark Twain A Biography and The Boys' Life Of Mark Twain written by Albert Bigelow Paine, are an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked.
This Reader’s Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes.