Inventing Mark Twain : the lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens /
Andrew Hoffman.
- New York : W. Morrow, 1997.
- xviii, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-563) and index.
Inventing Sam Clemens Becoming Tom Sawyer Seeing with Huck Finn's eyes On the road, on his own Life on the Mississippi Out west Inventing the first Mark Twain Hostage to Bohemia Hawaiian correspondence At home, on stage On the make in the east An innocent vandal A gypsy again Love and money Unsettling down On the road again Wedded Bliss The horrible year A new life Hell on rails A birth, a death, a book To England! A man of parts A man of letters Taming a shooting star Compromising the past Feeling poor Hiding out in Europe The return of Mark Twain New book, new business The distribution of wealth Writing Huck Finn His own publisher Grant Going for broke The Connecticut yankee A season of death The end of Mark Twain Farewell, America Peace and panic Faustian bargains A respite for the bankrupt Around the world City of heartbreak. A Jew in Vienna In search of health The sage returns Famous on his own terms The decline of an angel Livy Loss A public man Heaven is populated with angelfish Conspiracy against the king Victory in retreat
Meticulously researched and brilliantly realized, Inventing Mark Twain is a major new biography of America's most famous literary figure. Hoffman traces Clemens' origins in the frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri, revealing the unexpected importance of events in Clemens' childhood
068812769X (acid-free paper) 9780688127695
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism. Autores estadounidenses --Siglo XIX Autores estadounidenses --Historia y crítica Biography as a literary form. Biografía como forma literaria Autobiography. Autobiografía