Mark TwainSimon and Schuster, 4 de set. de 2008 - 704 páginas Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can. |
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Something at Once Awful and Sublime 183539 | 2 |
The hite Town Drowsin 1839 | |
A rentice 184851 | |
So Far from Home 185356 | |
The Language of water 1185658 | |
Ranger 1185861 | |
washoe 186162 | |
A Journalistic Counterculture 186263 | |
The Lion of London 187273 | |
Gilded 187374 | |
uarr Farm and Nook Farm 187475 | |
The Man in the Moon 11875 | |
It Befell Yt One Did Breake ind 1876 | |
Gods Fool 1877 | |
Abroad Again 1187879 | |
A Personal Hatred for Humbug 11880 | |
Mark TwainMore of Him 1863 | |
Code Duello 186364 | |
A yillainous Backwoods Sketch 186465 | |
On the Road 1186667 | |
Back East 1867 | |
moVemoveMove l 1867 | |
Pilgrims and Sinners 1867 | |
In the Thrall of Mother Bear October 1867New Years Day 1868 | |
A ork Humorousl Inclined Februar Jul 1868 | |
American yandal OctoberDecember 1868 | |
M Hated Nom de Plume 1871 | |
Sociable Jimmy 187172 | |
A Powerful Good Time 188182 | |
All Right Then 1188283 | |
The American Novel 1188485 | |
Roll Over Lord Byron 188687 | |
e Are Skimmin Alon Like Pau ers 1891June 1893 | |
Exile and Return 18961900 | |
Sitting in Darkness 119001905 | |
Chapter the Last | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
About the Author | |
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