Mark Twain
A Life
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Publisher:
New York - Free Press
Pages:
722
ISBN:
0743248996
Language:
English
Contents:
"Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39)
"The white town, drowsing..." (1839)
Of words and the word (1840-42)
The Hannibal decade (1843-53)
Apprentice (1848-51)
Rambler (1852-53)
"So far from home..." (1853-56)
The language of water (1856-58)
Ranger (1858-61)
Washoe (1861-62)
A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)
"Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)
Code Duello (1863-64)
A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)
"...and I began to talk" (1865-66)
On the road (1866-67)
Back East (1867)
"move-move-Move!" (1867)
Pilgrims and sinners (1867)
In the thrall of mother bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)
"A work humorously inclined..." (February-July 1868)
The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)
American vandal (October-December 1868)
"Quite worthy of the best" (1869)
Fairyland (1870)
"My hated non de plume..." (1871)
Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)
The lion of London (1872-73)
Gilded (1873-74)
Quarry farm and nook farm (1874-75)
The man in the moon (1875)
"It befell yt one did breake wind..." (1876)
God's fool (1877)
Abroad again (1878-79)
"A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)
"A powerful good time" (1881-82)
"All right, then..." (1882-83)
The American novel (1884-85)
Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)
"I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)
"We are skimming along like paupers..." (1891-June 1893)
Savior (1893-94)
Thunder-stroke (1895-96)
Exile and return (1896-1900)
Sitting in darkness (1900-1905)
"The white town, drowsing..." (1839)
Of words and the word (1840-42)
The Hannibal decade (1843-53)
Apprentice (1848-51)
Rambler (1852-53)
"So far from home..." (1853-56)
The language of water (1856-58)
Ranger (1858-61)
Washoe (1861-62)
A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)
"Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)
Code Duello (1863-64)
A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)
"...and I began to talk" (1865-66)
On the road (1866-67)
Back East (1867)
"move-move-Move!" (1867)
Pilgrims and sinners (1867)
In the thrall of mother bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)
"A work humorously inclined..." (February-July 1868)
The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)
American vandal (October-December 1868)
"Quite worthy of the best" (1869)
Fairyland (1870)
"My hated non de plume..." (1871)
Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)
The lion of London (1872-73)
Gilded (1873-74)
Quarry farm and nook farm (1874-75)
The man in the moon (1875)
"It befell yt one did breake wind..." (1876)
God's fool (1877)
Abroad again (1878-79)
"A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)
"A powerful good time" (1881-82)
"All right, then..." (1882-83)
The American novel (1884-85)
Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)
"I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)
"We are skimming along like paupers..." (1891-June 1893)
Savior (1893-94)
Thunder-stroke (1895-96)
Exile and return (1896-1900)
Sitting in darkness (1900-1905)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-689) and index
Statement of responsibility:
Ron Powers
Physical description:
xi, 722 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
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Add a CommentI decided to read this as a prelude to his unexpurgated autobiography, which is not written along a linear timeline, in order to better understand the events depicted in the latter. Dense, detailed and consistently well-written, this biography provided me with what I crave most, enough of the real person behind the Mark Twain persona to bring to life the man, father, son, brother, friend and enemy.