Mark Twain : A Life

English

ISBN: 0743249011

EAN: 9780743249010

Category: Literary Criticism / American / General

Publisher: Free Press

Release Date: 05/11/2006

Synopsis: Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his countrys, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powerss magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Mark Twain : A Life

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.3 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 32.24 oz

Pages: 736