02524cam a2200349 a 4500001000700000003000800007005001700015007000300032008004100035020003300076020001800109040001300127041000800140050002400148082000800172100003300180245008500213260003400298300008100332504006600413505105200479520028601531600003001817650005701847650004001904650005101944650003401995650003802029650001902067650002002086856006802106125807BJBSDDR20240108111356.0ta960729s1997 nyuaf b 001 0beng  a068812769X (acid-free paper) a9780688127695 cDLCbeng aeng14aPS 1331bH699i 199700a8181 aHoffman, Andrew Jay, d1961-10aInventing Mark Twain :bthe lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens /cAndrew Hoffman. aNew York :bW. Morrow,c1997. axviii, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : billustrations ; c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [555]-563) and index.0 aInventing Sam Clemens Becoming Tom Sawyer Seeing with Huck Finn's eyes On the road, on his own Life on the Mississippi Out west Inventing the first Mark Twain Hostage to Bohemia Hawaiian correspondence At home, on stage On the make in the east An innocent vandal A gypsy again Love and money Unsettling down On the road again Wedded Bliss The horrible year A new life Hell on rails A birth, a death, a book To England! A man of parts A man of letters Taming a shooting star Compromising the past Feeling poor Hiding out in Europe The return of Mark Twain New book, new business The distribution of wealth Writing Huck Finn His own publisher Grant Going for broke The Connecticut yankee A season of death The end of Mark Twain Farewell, America Peace and panic Faustian bargains A respite for the bankrupt Around the world City of heartbreak. A Jew in Vienna In search of health The sage returns Famous on his own terms The decline of an angel Livy Loss A public man Heaven is populated with angelfish Conspiracy against the king Victory in retreat aMeticulously researched and brilliantly realized, Inventing Mark Twain is a major new biography of America's most famous literary figure. Hoffman traces Clemens' origins in the frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri, revealing the unexpected importance of events in Clemens' childhood14aTwain, Mark, d1835-1910  0aAuthors, AmericanxBiographyxHistory and criticism. 4aAutores estadounidenses ySiglo XIX 4aAutores estadounidenses xHistoria y crítica 0aBiography as a literary form. 4aBiografía como forma literaria  0aAutobiography. 4aAutobiografía423Book review (H-Net)uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0l8-aa