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| Author | : Harry L. Katz |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-10-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780316209397 |
Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and healed post-Civil War America with his tall tales, witty anecdotes, and humorous but insightful novels and stories. Twain's legacy continues to flourish over 100 years after his death. MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA features spectacular examples of Twain memorabilia and period Americana from the unsurpassed collections of the Library of Congress: rare illustrations, vintage photographs, popular and fine prints, period views, caricatures, cartoons, maps, and more. Excerpts from Twain's writings are framed in a lively narrative by author Harry L. Katz. Covering the years between 1850 and 1910, the book gives readers an intimate view of Twain's many roles in life: Mississippi river boat pilot, California gold prospector, "printer's devil" at a small-town newspaper, muckraking journalist, novelist, public speaker extraordinaire, our first major celebrity author. Through letters, political cartoons, photographs and more, MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA offers an inside look into Twain's life as well as the literary. social, and political life of America during his time.
| Author | : Mark Twain |
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| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : American wit and humor |
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| Author | : Mark Twain |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1960 |
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| Author | : Mark Twain |
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| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Authors, American |
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Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.
| Author | : Mark Twain |
| Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780826214126 |
Mark Twain's life--one of the richest and raciest America has known--is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America's most colorful personalities. The words are Twain's own, taken from his writings--not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to Twain's text. Presented in the hundreds of photos, prints, drawings, cartoons, and paintings is Twain himself, from the apprentice in his printer's cap to the dying world-famous figure finishing his last voyage in a wheelchair. Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography will not only inform and entertain the casual reader but will provide a valuable resource to scholars and teachers of Twain as well.
| Author | : Elizabeth MacLeod |
| Publisher | : Kids Can Press |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2008-03-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781553379096 |
This book in the Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History series introduces young readers to the famous writer, comedian, world traveler and lecturer. This poor boy born Sam Clemens grew up to write books that changed literature in America and around the world. Celebrated around the world for his humorous writings, Mark Twain often had little to laugh about in his life. He was plagued by financial difficulties, and his wife and three of his children all died before him. Despite these setbacks, he maintained the broadly appealing sense of humor that made him the first American star. From his Mississippi boyhood, through the Civil War, his years of fame following the publication of Huckleberry Finn, and his business reversals and family tragedies, Mark Twain's story is a fascinating trip through a changing United States. Includes many photos, reproductions of contemporary art and artifacts, newspaper excerpts, a timeline of Twain's life, an index and a list of places to visit.
| Author | : Don Brown |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2006-05-22 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0547349858 |
Our popular image of Mark Twain is of a gruff, gray-haired eccentric, the outspoken literary giant who created enduring novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But once upon a time, Mark Twain was a boy named Samuel Clemens. His birth on November 30, 1835, coincided with the appearance of Halley’s comet, streaking across the sky. A dreamer, a prankster, a lover of great tales, Sam Clemens spent his boyhood years living out adventures on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.
| Author | : Neal Frank Doubleday |
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| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1922 |
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| Author | : Andrew Levy |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1439186960 |
Examines Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, calling into question commonly held interpretations of the work on the subjects of youth, youth culture, and race relations, based on research into the social preoccupations of the era in which it was written.
| Author | : Robert Burleigh |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2014-10-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1481428403 |
Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it’s time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain! An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes get all gussied up in linen suits and even if he did make it rich and live in a house with so many tiers and gazebos that it looked like a weddin’ cake. All that’s a little too proper and hog tied for our narrator, Huckleberry Finn, but no one is more right for the job of telling this picture book biography than Huck himself. (We’re so glad he would oblige.) And, he’ll tell you one thing—that Mr. Twain was a piece a work! Famous for his sense of humor and saying exactly what’s on his mind, a real satirist he was—perhaps America’s greatest. Ever. True to Huck’s voice, this picture book biography is a river boat ride into the life of a real American treasure.
