Mark Twain A to Z
Title | Mark Twain A to Z PDF eBook |
Author | R. Kent Rasmussen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Mark Twain A to Z features more than 1,200 entries which provide detailed character analyses and plot summaries of all of Twain's works, thousands of precise chapter citations and cross-references to related subjects, and biographies of the people whom he knew and events that affected his life. 130+ illustrations.
Mark Twain A-Z: Essential Reference to His Life and Writing
Title | Mark Twain A-Z: Essential Reference to His Life and Writing PDF eBook |
Author | R. Kent Rasmussen |
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Mark Twain
Title | Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Powers |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2005-09-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 074327475X |
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, 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 Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.
James Joyce A to Z
Title | James Joyce A to Z PDF eBook |
Author | A. Nicholas Fargnoli |
Publisher | Literary A-Z's |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0195110293 |
(series copy)These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial toan appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf.As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companionto Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope.
F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z
Title | F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jo Tate |
Publisher | Checkmark Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780816039326 |
Entries cover the life and writings of Fitzgerald as well as significant letters, movie projects, fictional characters, and friends, family, and associates
The Singular Mark Twain
Title | The Singular Mark Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Kaplan |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Authors, American |
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Mark Twain Himself
Title | Mark Twain Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826214126 |
Mark Twain's life--one of the richest and raciest America has known--is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America's most colorful personalities. The words are Twain's own, taken from his writings--not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to Twain's text. Presented in the hundreds of photos, prints, drawings, cartoons, and paintings is Twain himself, from the apprentice in his printer's cap to the dying world-famous figure finishing his last voyage in a wheelchair. Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography will not only inform and entertain the casual reader but will provide a valuable resource to scholars and teachers of Twain as well.