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2) Roughing it
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Books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have firmly established Mark Twain's reputation as one of the best-loved American humorists, but the author's non-fiction works are packed with as much laughter and keen insight as his popular novels. In the series of essays presented in the volume Roughing It, Twain recounts his years as a soldier, sailor, and speculator in the Wild West.
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c2010
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xxiii, 491 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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, the author 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. He follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself...
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[2013]
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xix, 733 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Presents the second volume of the author's autobiographical dictations, sharing his experiences through all periods of his life with his distinctive wit and opinionated delivery, along with extensive explanatory notes and extra material.
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Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous...
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2015.
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"This third and final volume crowns and completes Twain's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition...
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c2005
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xi, 722 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In Mark Twain, Ron Powers consummates years of research with a tour de force on the life of our culture's founding father. He offers Sam Clemens as he lived, breathed, and wrote. With the assistance of the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, he has drawn on thousands of letters and notebook entries, many only recently discovered. Sam Clemens left his frontier boyhood in Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats. He skirted...
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p2010
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20 sound discs (ca. 25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The...
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2015.
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xxiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm
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"A groundbreaking and controversial re-examination of our most beloved classic, Huckleberry Finn, proving that for more than 100 years we have misunderstood Twain's message on race and childhood--and the uncomfortable truths it still holds for modern America"--Provided by publisher.
19) Mark Twain
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©2001
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1 videodisc (approximately 220 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
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Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
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p2002
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1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (7 p.)
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"Hal Holbrook has been performing Mark Twain tonight! for 47 years, enthralling audiences with an astonishing portrayal of the person Hemingway called America's first great author ... After over 2000 performances of Mark Twain tonight!, Hal Holbrook remains as passionate as ever about the life-long role. 'Mark Twain is my verbal machine gun, ' he says, 'to shoot down hypocrisy, fools and swindlers.' As the performances on this CD make abundantly clear,...
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