Inventing Mark Twain
Title | Inventing Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Jay Hoffman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Authors, American |
ISBN | 9780753804582 |
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Inventing Mark Twain
Title | Inventing Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Hoffman |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1997-02-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780688127695 |
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Mark Twain
Title | Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Pflueger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780766010932 |
Better known as Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens is one of America's most loved writers. Like the characters in his novels, Twain's life was filled with exciting adventures. He navigated the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot, mined for riches in the American West, and traveled all over the world. In this book, author Lynda Pflueger traces the life of the man who used his childhood experiences growing up near the Mississippi River to write the popular stories that have made him one of the greatest humorists in American literature.
Dangerous Water
Title | Dangerous Water PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Powers |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2001-10-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0306820315 |
While Mark Twain remains one of our most quintessentially American writers, the actual boyhood experiences that fueled his most enduring literature remained largely unexplored—until now. Twain's early years were a decidedly un-innocent time, marked by deaths of friends and family and his father's bankruptcy. Twain dealt with those personal tragedies through humor and the tall tale. From the time that a ten-year-old Samuel Clemens lit out on his own and boarded his first Mississippi steamer to his first encounter with a traveling "mesmerizer" (which ignited his lifelong penchant for acting and spectacle), from the brooding sense of guilt and fear of eternal damnation inculcated into him at church to the superstitions and stories of witchcraft he learned from the blacks on his farm, Powers unforgettably shows how Mark Twain was shaped by the distinctly American landscape, culture, and people of Hannibal, Missouri. Jay Parini, the celebrated biographer of Robert Frost, called Dangerous Water "a long-needed evocation of the boyhood of the man who invented boyhood for all time. . . . An immensely shrewd and deeply engaging book, a great gift to all of us who love Twain."
Mark Twain, a Biography
Title | Mark Twain, a Biography PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Bigelow Paine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Inventions of Mark Twain
Title | The Inventions of Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | John Lauber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Authors, American |
ISBN |
Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends
Title | Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Krass |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007-03-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0470117206 |
While the entire world knows Mark Twain as the renowned author of many classic American novels, few people are aware that he was also a highly successful businessman. In fact, more than half of his life was consumed by moneymaking pursuits, which often resulted in writing projects being neglected--but at the same time, these adventures were the inspiration behind many of the characters found in his books. In Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends, Peter Krass captures a little-known side of this American icon and details the roller coaster ride of his business ventures in a dramatic, entertaining, and informative narrative style. From Twain's time as the founder of his own publishing house--where he made a small fortune publishing General Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs--to his foray into venture capitalism and investment in numerous start-up firms, to his focus on his own inventions, this engaging book reveals the Mark Twain that few of us know: the no-nonsense, successful American businessman.