Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens - Softcover

Loving, Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520269853 ISBN 13: 9780520269859

Publisher: University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain’s life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

“Very probably the best of the many Mark Twain biographies...one that should be preeminent for quite a long time.”―Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

“This biography offers irresistibly concise and beautifully paced chapters that will take readers through this author's amazing life and work―its humor, its pathos, and its tragedy―in brisk and compelling fashion.”―Ed Folsom, author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations

“There has definitely never been a Twain biography so comprehensive in scope and so sagaciously opinionative.”―Alan Gribben, author of Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction, and co-founder of Mark Twain Circle of America

About the Author:

Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is the author of Walt Whitman: Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, both from UC Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520269853
• ISBN 13: 9780520269859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 520