02758nam 2200481 450 991079649950332120230814232914.00-8262-7400-5(CKB)3790000000543013(MiAaPQ)EBC5205459(OCoLC)1007505891(MdBmJHUP)muse66733(Au-PeEL)EBL5205459(CaPaEBR)ebr11486519(EXLCZ)99379000000054301320180129h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe life of Mark Twain the early years, 1835-1871 /Gary ScharnhorstColumbia, Missouri :University of Missouri Press,2018.©20181 online resource (719 pages) illustrationsMark Twain and his circle0-8262-2144-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Ancestry -- The villages -- Hannibal -- Journeyman printer -- The river -- The war -- The mines -- Virginia City -- From Virginia City to San Francisco -- San Francisco -- Sandwich Islands -- San Francisco redux -- New York -- The voyage -- Washington, D.C. -- The West revisited -- Hartford, Elmira, and Buffalo -- Buffalo exitus.This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens's life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.Humorists, American19th centuryBiographyAuthors, American19th centuryBiographyHumorists, AmericanAuthors, American818/.409Scharnhorst Gary1510553MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796499503321The life of Mark Twain3743307UNINA