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Author : Mark Twain
Release : 1972
Genre : American fiction
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Family Mark Twain by : Mark Twain
Download or read book The Family Mark Twain written by Mark Twain. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur G. Pettit
Release : 2014-07-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 782/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mark Twain And The South by : Arthur G. Pettit
Download or read book Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters.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.
Author : Mark Twain
Release : 2014-11-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 639/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings by : Mark Twain
Download or read book A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings written by Mark Twain. This book was released on 2014-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain’s private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire household. His record of the childrens’ sayings—"Small Foolishnesses"—is next, followed by the related manuscript "At the Farm." Also included are selections from Livy’s 1885 diary and an authoritative edition of Susy’s biography of her father, written when she was a teenager. Newly edited from the original manuscripts, this anthology is a unique record of a fascinating family.
Author : Mark Twain
Release : 1924
Genre : Authors, American
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Book Synopsis Mark Twain's Autobiography by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Mark Twain's Autobiography written by Mark Twain. This book was released on 1924. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.
Author : Mark Twain
Release : 2011-07
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 521/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mark Twain’s Book of Animals by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Mark Twain’s Book of Animals written by Mark Twain. This book was released on 2011-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those unaware—as I was until I read this book—that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place." —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save “A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent."—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate "Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't." —Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life
