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Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0297815369
Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0753804581
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Author : Andrew J. Hoffman
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 068812769X
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Author : Andrew J. Hoffman
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0688161103
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
Author : Lynda Pflueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766010937
Better known as Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens is one of America's most loved writers. Like the characters in his novels, Twain's life was filled with exciting adventures. He navigated the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot, mined for riches in the American West, and traveled all over the world. In this book, author Lynda Pflueger traces the life of the man who used his childhood experiences growing up near the Mississippi River to write the popular stories that have made him one of the greatest humorists in American literature.
Author : Selina Lai-Henderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804794756
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.
Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231541244
A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, “written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language” (The Washington Post). Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his “remarkable linguistic investigation” (Booklist) features a new chapter on the influence of biblical translation and an epilogue on the relationship of English speech to writing. A unique blend of historical and personal narrative, both “erudite and accessible” (The Globe and Mail), Inventing English is the surprising tale of a language that is as dynamic as the people to whom it belongs. “Lerer is not just a scholar; he's also a fan of English—his passion is evident on every page of this examination of how our language came to sound—and look—as it does and how words came to have their current meanings…the book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Ellen Gruber Garvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199986354
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.
Author : Peter Krass
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471933373
While the entire world knows Mark Twain as the renowned author of many classic American novels, few people are aware that he was also a highly successful businessman. In fact, more than half of his life was consumed by moneymaking pursuits, which often resulted in writing projects being neglected--but at the same time, these adventures were the inspiration behind many of the characters found in his books. In Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends, Peter Krass captures a little-known side of this American icon and details the roller coaster ride of his business ventures in a dramatic, entertaining, and informative narrative style. From Twain's time as the founder of his own publishing house--where he made a small fortune publishing General Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs--to his foray into venture capitalism and investment in numerous start-up firms, to his focus on his own inventions, this engaging book reveals the Mark Twain that few of us know: the no-nonsense, successful American businessman.
Author : Alan Pell Crawford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780544836464
A detailed and humorous account of the various disastrous money schemes and entrepreneurial pursuits of Mark Twain, who was noted for his spectacularly bad financial decisions during the Gilded Age
Author : John Lauber,Mark Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : OCLC:41607016
Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306820311
While Mark Twain remains one of our most quintessentially American writers, the actual boyhood experiences that fueled his most enduring literature remained largely unexplored—until now. Twain's early years were a decidedly un-innocent time, marked by deaths of friends and family and his father's bankruptcy. Twain dealt with those personal tragedies through humor and the tall tale. From the time that a ten-year-old Samuel Clemens lit out on his own and boarded his first Mississippi steamer to his first encounter with a traveling "mesmerizer" (which ignited his lifelong penchant for acting and spectacle), from the brooding sense of guilt and fear of eternal damnation inculcated into him at church to the superstitions and stories of witchcraft he learned from the blacks on his farm, Powers unforgettably shows how Mark Twain was shaped by the distinctly American landscape, culture, and people of Hannibal, Missouri. Jay Parini, the celebrated biographer of Robert Frost, called Dangerous Water "a long-needed evocation of the boyhood of the man who invented boyhood for all time. . . . An immensely shrewd and deeply engaging book, a great gift to all of us who love Twain."
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547397717
Though best known for his adventure novels and humorous stories, Twain was a passionate world traveler and he recorded his journeys in several travel books which were all very popular at the time: "The Innocents Abroad" humorously chronicles Twain's "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. "Roughing It" follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. The book illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation and a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii. "Old Times on the Mississippi" is a short account of Twain's experiences as a cub pilot, learning the Mississippi river. "A Tramp Abroad" details Twain's journey through central and southern Europe with his friend. As the two men make their way through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, they encounter situations made all the more humorous by their reactions to them. "Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans after the War. "Following the Equator" – In an attempt to extricate himself from debt, Twain undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in English. The book is a social commentary, critical of racism towards Blacks, Asians, and Indigenous groups. "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion" presents a series of stories about a trip that Twain and some friends took to Bermuda from New York City. "Chapters from my Autobiography" comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations of Mark Twain, assembled during his life. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781640140349
Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire since the advent of his career.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015020697317
Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.