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Mark Twain's "imaginative interpretation" of his experience as a prospector, miner, journalist in the West in Nevada, California, and the Sandwich ... More

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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have ... More

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From the authors of "Jazz, Baseball, " and "The Civil War": the first fully illustrated biography of one of the central figures of literature--the ... More

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Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on St. Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also ... More

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Innocents Abroad began as a series of travel letters written by Mark Twain mainly for the Alta California, a San Francisco paper that sponsored his ... More

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When 47-year-old teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife Maureen, a nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School ... More

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Filled with first-rate scholarship, never-before-published photos, delightful anecdotes, and memorable quotes, this biography of Mark Twain's last ... More

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Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age," comes alive -- a presence felt, an artist ... More

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One young food writer searches for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hen, and employs Mark Twain as his guide.

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A wonderfully bizarre new collection of short stories by Oates, "Wild Nights!" reimagines the final days of five major American writers--Edgar Allen ... More

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Now on disc as an unabridged MP3, this concise reference helps students understand the overall structure, action, and motivation of the characters in ... More

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William Dean Howells and Mark Twain were intimate friends for more than forty years. Shortly after Mark Twain died in 1910, Howells recorded this ... More

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Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during the final years after the death of his wife. Trombley, the ... More

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Taking Twain's original coming-of-age classic, Borchert has infused it with ataste of the macabre, as the world has been overrun by a Zombie epidemic ... More

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"Very probably the best of the many Mark Twain biographies. . .one that should be preeminent for quite a long time."--Frederick Crews, author of ... More

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This clear and incisive 2007 introduction situates Twain's works in the historical and cultural context of his times.

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After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain's ... More

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"Here's a collection of Mark Twain's most profound reflections, wry observations, and candid witticisms, packaged in an illustrated, collectible ... More

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One of our most distinguished biographers offers a bold, revisionist view of the inimitable Mark Twain. Mark Twain invented American literature. His ... More

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"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has ... More

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In one of the great autobiographies of the English language, Mark Twain recounts "everything that ever happened to me, and a lot of things besides." ... More

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Part of the Lives and Legacies series, this volume is a marvelous, compact introduction to the life and legacy of Mark Twain.

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Behind the humor of these pieces, readers will see Twain's serious thoughts on the relationship between God and Man, biblical inconsistencies, ... More

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