Jerome Loving

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

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Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain's life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-94549-4
EAN: 9780520945494
Produktnummer: 21979442
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 520 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'992 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is the author of Walt Whitman: Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, both from UC Press.