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Barcode37821002540884
StatusChecked Out
LocationMarshall District
TitleMark Twain / Ron Chernow.
AuthorChernow, Ron, author.
Call No921 TWA
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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921 TWA Due on 7/7/2025  

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780525561729
International Standard Book Number 0525561722
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 818/.409; B
Personal Name Chernow, Ron, author.
Title Statement Mark Twain / Ron Chernow.
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
Physical Description xxi, 1174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 1045-1136) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Part One: Afloat -- Part Two: Floodtide -- Part Three: Rapids -- Part Four: Whirlpool -- Part Five: Shipwreck.
Summary, Etc. "Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize. In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and lecturer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He threw himself into the hurly-burly of American culture, and emerged as the nation’s most notable political pundit. At the same time, his madcap business ventures eventually bankrupted him; to economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain’s bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country’s westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain’s writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted." --publisher's website.
Subject-Personal Name Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Authors, American 19th century Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Humorists, American 19th century Biography.

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