Mark Twain a life
Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American writer and humorist, Mark Twain, and chronicles his personal and professional life, including information on the landscape and events of his day, describing Twain as he lived.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Free Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39)
- "The white town, drowsing ..." (1839)
- Of words and the Word (1840-42)
- The Hannibal decade (1843-53)
- Apprentice (1848-51)
- Rambler (1852-53)
- "So far from home ..." (1853-56)
- The language of water (1856-58)
- Ranger (1858-61)
- Washoe (1861-62)
- A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)
- "Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)
- Code Duello (1863-64)
- A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)
- " ... and I began to talk" (1865-66)
- On the road (1866-67)
- Back East (1867)
- "move-move-Move!" (1867)
- Pilgrims and sinners (1867)
- In the thrall of Mother Bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)
- "A work humorously inclined ..." (February-July 1868)
- The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)
- American vandal (October-December 1868)
- "Quite worthy of the best" (1869)
- Fairyland (1870)
- "My hated nom de plume ..." (1871)
- Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)
- The lion of London (1872-73)
- Gilded (1873-74)
- Quarry Farm and Nook Farm (1874-75)
- The man in the moon (1875)
- "It befell yt one did breake wind ..." (1876)
- God's fool (1877)
- Abroad again (1878-79)
- "A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)
- "A powerful good time" (1881-82)
- "All right, then ..." (1882-83)
- The American novel (1884-85)
- Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)
- "I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)
- "We are skimming along like paupers ..." (1891-June 1893)
- Savior (1893-94)
- Thunder-stroke (1895-96)
- Exile and return (1896-1900)
- Sitting in darkness (1900-1905).
