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Mark Twain / (Record no. 65849)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2024044064
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780525561729
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International Standard Book Number 0525561722
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035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)on1456540897
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS1331
Item number .C34 2025
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 818/.409
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Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chernow, Ron,
Relator term author.
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245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mark Twain /
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Penguin Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2025.
Date of publication, distribution, etc �2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 1174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 25 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 1045-1136) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prelude: The pilot house -- Part one: Afloat. Loveless marriage -- A wild and mischievous boy -- Printer's devil -- "Darling existence" -- "A ragged and dirty bunch" -- "The most lovable scamp" -- "Heaven on the half shell" -- "Land of indolence and dreams" -- "Grave of a blood relation" -- A branch of hell -- "My honored 'sister'" ; Wedding present -- Part two: Floodtide. Church of the holy speculators -- Mississippi steamboat and a cuckoo clock -- Chartering a comet to Mars -- "Invertebrate without a country" -- Toast to the babies -- "Inspired bugger of a machine" -- "Hallelujah Jennings" -- Twins of genius -- "A sound heart & a deformed conscience" -- Pure mugwump -- Reparation due to every Black man -- "No pockets in the armor" -- "The deriding of shams" -- Death and delusion -- "One of the Vanderbilt gang" -- Part three: Rapids. "Paradise of the rheumatics" -- "A lady above reproach" -- "Boss machine of the world" -- "Too much of a human being" -- "Paris the damnable" -- "'Colossal' is a tame word for him" -- "Clown of the sea" -- "Circumnavigation of this great globe" -- "The only sad voyage" -- "A book written in blood & tears" -- "Letters to Satan" -- "Stirring times in Austria" -- "The European Edison" -- Dream self -- "A hundred capering clowns" -- "The bastard human race" -- Part four: Whirlpool. "The ancient mariner" -- The Anti-doughnut Party -- "The United States of lyncherdom" -- "Magnificent panorama of the Mississippi" -- "Spirit of a steam engine" -- Divine healing -- The dread cavalcade of death -- "The war prayer" -- "An artist in morals and ink" -- "The swindle of life" -- Pier 70 -- Angelfish -- A fan and a halo -- Wuthering Heights -- Part five: Shipwreck. Man in the white clothes -- "A real American college boy" ; "All the wonders that are occurring" -- A holiday from life's woes -- Innocence at home -- "Mark Twain's daughter" -- The death of Tammany -- "An insane idea" -- Grandpa Twain -- Letters from the Earth -- "An old bird of paradise" -- Halley's comet.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley's Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi, and arrived in the Nevada Territory during the silver-mining boom. Before long, he had accepted a job at the local newspaper, where he barged into vigorous discourse and debate, hoaxes and hijinks. After moving to San Francisco, he published stories that attracted national attention for their brashness and humor, writing under a pen name soon to be immortalized. Chernow draws a richly nuanced portrait of the man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune and crafted his celebrity persona with meticulous care. Twain eventually settled with his wife and three daughters in Hartford, where he wrote some of his most well-known works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, earning him further acclaim. He threw himself into American politics, emerging as the nation's most notable pundit. While his talents as a writer and speaker flourished, his madcap business ventures eventually forced him into bankruptcy; to economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including his fifty notebooks, thousands of letters, and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures a man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars. No other white author of his generation grappled so fully with the legacy of slavery after the Civil War or showed such keen interest in African American culture. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted"--
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Twain, Mark,
Dates associated with a name 1835-1910.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Authors, American
Chronological subdivision 19th century
Form subdivision Biography.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Humorists, American
Chronological subdivision 19th century
Form subdivision Biography.
655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Biography.
Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
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Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
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776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Chernow, Ron.
Title Mark Twain
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Penguin Press, 2025
International Standard Book Number 9780525561736
Record control number (DLC) 2024044065
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type BIOG
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  Biography Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction B TWA 34480000611065 BIOG