TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffman,Andrew Jay
TI  - Inventing Mark Twain: the lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens 
SN  - 068812769X (acid-free paper)
AV  - PS 1331 H699i 1997
U1  - 818 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. Morrow
KW  - Twain, Mark, 
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Autores estadounidenses
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Biografía como forma literaria
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Autobiografía
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0l8-aa
ER  -