Huck Finn; Pudd'nhead Wilson; No 44; Mysterious Stranger; and other writings (Library of America College Editions) - Softcover

Mark Twain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883011884 ISBN 13: 9781883011888

Publisher: Library of America, 2000

Synopsis

Compiles Twain's novels, short stories, and essays reflecting his opinions on the ethical and political issues of his era.

About this title

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 sentimental and 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.”

Guy Cardwell has written several books on Mark Twain and is emeritus professor of English at Washington University

About this edition

• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1883011884
• ISBN 13: 9781883011888
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 808
• Editor: Louis J. Budd