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Mark Twain And The South
Author | : Arthur G. Pettit |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813148786 |
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The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.
Mark Twain
Author | : Ron Powers |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781847395993 |
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Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can.
The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn
Author | : Robert Burleigh |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2014-10-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781481428408 |
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Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it’s time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain! An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes get all gussied up in linen suits and even if he did make it rich and live in a house with so many tiers and gazebos that it looked like a weddin’ cake. All that’s a little too proper and hog tied for our narrator, Huckleberry Finn, but no one is more right for the job of telling this picture book biography than Huck himself. (We’re so glad he would oblige.) And, he’ll tell you one thing—that Mr. Twain was a piece a work! Famous for his sense of humor and saying exactly what’s on his mind, a real satirist he was—perhaps America’s greatest. Ever. True to Huck’s voice, this picture book biography is a river boat ride into the life of a real American treasure.
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Author | : Mark Twain,Bob Blaisdell |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780486489230 |
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"Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.
Mark Twain and Me
Author | : Dorothy Quick |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806111224 |
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A little girl's friendship with Mark Twain.
Who Was Mark Twain
Author | : April Jones Prince,Who HQ |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2004-05-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780448433196 |
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A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. But Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice. His fascinating life is captured candidly in this enjoyable biography.
Mark Twain s Autobiography
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : New York ; London : Harper & brothers |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020697317 |
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Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2021-02-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9798706026370 |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.