Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter Adventures Huckleberry Finn The Red Badge Courage Billy Budd - Softcover

Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Twain, Mark; Crane, Stephen; Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527771 ISBN 13: 9780451527776

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2001

Synopsis

Sweeping readers from the New England colonies to the banks of the Mississipppi, to the battle fields of the Civil War to the storm tossed waters of the Atlantic, this extraordinary collection is ideal-and most economical-for classrooms, libraries, and homes.

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About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimentaland also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called the Lincoln of our literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451527771
• ISBN 13: 9780451527776
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 736