A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain
Kathryn Lasky, Barry Moser (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published April 1998
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An illustrated biography of young Samuel Clemens, who grew up to be the writer known as Mark Twain.
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Charles Neider(Editor) / Paperback / Published November 1990
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The wonderfully readable and endlessly fascinating autobiography of one of America's foremost men of letters.
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Jeffrey Steinbrink / Hardcover / Published September 1991
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Inventing Mark Twain : The Lives of Samuel Langhorne ClemensAndrew Jay Hoffman / Hardcover / Published March 1997
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Inventing Mark Twain : The Lives of Samuel Langhorne ClemensAndrew Hoffman / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Twain's domestic years (1870-1904) were not what he considered his best. But in spite of illness and financial stress, they were the years when he wrote the novels and stories he is remembered for--works that, according to Willis (Literature/Drury College) in this slight and sentimental story, were edited and inspired by Olivia ``Livy'' Langdon, Twain's wife, whom he called ``angel'' and ``gravity.'' Recovering from ``neurasthenia,'' a form of weakness that afflicted upper-class, intellectually repressed Victorian women, Livy entered a ``classic'' marriage as the ``civilizing'' influence on a hard-drinking, smoking, swearing, sociable dreamer who liked to travel. She decorated his homes, entertained his friends, toured Europe and the world with him as he lectured and wrote, and provided the fortune that allowed them to live so well on an editor's salary--a fortune he lost on the ill-fated Paige typesetting machine. Livy also bore four children: a son who died in infancy and three emotionally crippled daughters, also tamed in odd ways--at age four, the oldest was ``whipped'' daily in the bathroom with a ``hairbrush or papercutter.'' Although Livy's dark side--her elitist, tyrannical, and repressive nature--is obvious, the love story Willis claims to offer is not. Rather, there is a record of holidays (not very festive), expenses, travels, domestic chores, visits, visitors, griefs, and all possible illnesses--from pinkeye to epilepsy--and the medical foolishness with which many of them were treated. The best story, only implicit here, is not the taming of Mark but the liberation of Livy, the adventure of being Mrs. Clemens, especially the lecture tour around the world with all the bizarre escapades in Fiji, Tasmania, Africa, and India, lovingly related in Following the Equator, a Twain work that does not even appear in Willis's bibliography, with the voyage itself squeezed between Twain's carbuncles and daughter Susy's death. (Two eight-page photo inserts--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.</I>
David R. Collins, Vicky Carey (Illustrator) / Library Binding / Published November 1993
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Profiles the eventful life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who used his colorful experiences as a riverboat captain, adventurer in the Wild West, and journalist to create unforgettable books--including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer --under the penname of Mark Twain.
David R. Collins, Vicky Carey (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published March 1994
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A biography of the American writer and humorist, Samuel Clemens, whose writings reflected his experiences, particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
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A biography of a great American humorist who had also been a printer, steamboat captain, news reporter, gold miner, and lecturer in a white linen suit.
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Mark Twain : The Man and His AdventuresRichard B. Lyttle / School & Library Binding / Published January 1995
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In this richly detailed biography, Lyttle (Ernest Hemingway, 1992, etc.) gives young readers a Mark Twain whose life, like Huck Finn's, was defined by the American paradox: Nearly every freedom came burdened with a sense of responsibility. Seeking a hiding place for the day while ditching school, the young Sam Clemens went to his father's office only to discover a dead body on the floor- -punishment, he assumed, for his truancy. Yet an overdeveloped conscience hardly conquered Clemens's searching, independent spirit. Lyttle chronicles thoroughly--and with refreshingly little sentimentality--Clemens's stint as a Mississippi River boat pilot, his travels west as a prospector, and his work as a journalist, from which he gradually transformed himself into Mark Twain. Lyttle carefully notes the complexity of this persona, who played to packed houses with his painstakingly rehearsed, seemingly offhand speeches and who created some of the most lasting fiction in our literature. Lyttle's treatment of Twain's work, however, is stingy by comparison. He covers The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in only a handful of paragraphs and oblique references (``He continued to read evening installments about the young prince [in The Prince and the Pauper] to his family, but he had too many misgivings to read the Finn story to them''). Still, Lyttle has delivered a superb portrait of the man. (Biography. 10+) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Mark Twain : Young Writer (The Childhood of Famous Americans Series)Miriam E. Mason, et al / Paperback / Published April 1991
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Describes the boyhood of Samuel Clemens in Missouri and how he came to begin a writing career under the pen name Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain's AmericaBernard Augustine De Voto, et al / Paperback / Published April 1997
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The 309 letters in this volume, more than half never before published, capture the events in Mark Twain's life in 1872 and 1873 with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they include genealogical charts, transcription of journals, book contracts, photographs, and, of course, all known letters written between 1865 and 1871. This volume is fifth in a series about the renowned author/humorist. 80 illus.
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Mark Twain, Michael J. Kiskis (Editor) / Paperback / Published October 1990
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain : A BiographyJustin E. Kaplan / Paperback / Published December 1991
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My Mark TwainWilliam Dean Howells / Paperback / Published May 1997
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William Dean Howells / Hardcover / Published June 1977
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Picturing Ourselves : Photography and AutobiographyLinda Haverty Rugg / Paperback / Published December 1997
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The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , No 101)Susan K. Harris / Paperback / Published March 1997
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A brief biography with emphasis on the early years of the noted author and humorist.
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