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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain : a biography /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, �1966.Description: 424 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0671207075
  • 9780671207076
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain.DDC classification:
  • 817.4
LOC classification:
  • PS1331 .K33
Other classification:
  • 18.06
  • LIT 437 TWAI
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
"A roving commission" -- "The tide of a great popular movement" -- "The fortune of my life" -- "I do not live backwards" -- "Little Sammy in fairy land" -- "A popular author's death rattle" -- "I did not know I was a lion" -- "Era of incredible rotteness" -- "Busiest white man in America" -- Spirits of '76 -- "The free air of Europe" -- "Everything a man could have" -- "Our great century" -- The yankee and the machine -- "Get me out of business!" -- "Never quite sane in the night" -- "Whited sepulchre."
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967.
Summary: "Although this biography of Mark Twain begins when Twain is 31 ... the book is a full account of Twain, his life and his work related both to his early years and to the 'Gilded Age' of his mature life."
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
BIOG BIOG Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction B CLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS1331 .K33 1 Available 34562000024785

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index.

"A roving commission" -- "The tide of a great popular movement" -- "The fortune of my life" -- "I do not live backwards" -- "Little Sammy in fairy land" -- "A popular author's death rattle" -- "I did not know I was a lion" -- "Era of incredible rotteness" -- "Busiest white man in America" -- Spirits of '76 -- "The free air of Europe" -- "Everything a man could have" -- "Our great century" -- The yankee and the machine -- "Get me out of business!" -- "Never quite sane in the night" -- "Whited sepulchre."

"Although this biography of Mark Twain begins when Twain is 31 ... the book is a full account of Twain, his life and his work related both to his early years and to the 'Gilded Age' of his mature life."

Also issued online.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967.

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