Mark Twain [[electronic resource] ] : the adventures of Samuel L. Clemens / / Jerome Loving

• Autore: Loving Jerome <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (549 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.409; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century; Humorists, American - 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of the Life and Works of Mark Twain -- Prologue -- Part I. Humorist in the West -- Part II. Writer in the East -- Part III. The Artist and the Businessman -- Part IV. The Mysterious Stranger -- Appendix A. Clemens Genealogy -- Appendix B. Books Published by Charles L. Webster & Company -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mark Twain
• ISBN: 1-282-55621-5; 9786612556210; 0-520-94549-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455566603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II