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Item Details
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MARK TWAIN
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| By: |
Ron Powers |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£16.66 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847395996 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847395993 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD |
| Pub. date: |
4 September, 2008 |
| Description: |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings us the astonishing life story of Mark Twain - America's most influential and beloved author, and the man be |
| Synopsis: |
Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Pocket Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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