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041 _aeng
050 1 4 _aPS 1331
_bH699i 1997
082 0 0 _a818
100 1 _aHoffman, Andrew Jay,
_d1961-
_932816
245 1 0 _aInventing Mark Twain :
_bthe lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens /
_cAndrew Hoffman.
260 _aNew York :
_bW. Morrow,
_c1997.
300 _axviii, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [555]-563) and index.
505 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
520 _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' childhood
600 1 4 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910
_927845
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_xBiography
_xHistory and criticism.
650 4 _aAutores estadounidenses
_94058
_ySiglo XIX
650 4 _aAutores estadounidenses
_xHistoria y crítica
_933621
650 0 _aBiography as a literary form.
650 4 _aBiografía como forma literaria
_931984
650 0 _aAutobiography.
650 4 _aAutobiografía
_98144
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0l8-aa
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