Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels (LOA #130): The Gilded Age / The American Claimant / Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective / No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger - Rilegato

Twain, Mark

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ISBN 10: 1931082103 ISBN 13: 9781931082105

Casa editrice: Library of America, 2002

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Featuring The Gilded Age; The American Claimant; Tom Sawyer Abroad; and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the sixth and final volume of fiction by America's greatest humorist reveals the many different facets of this literary genius and features No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, a haunting novel that explores the strange powers of the human mind.

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Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

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• Editore: Library of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931082103
• ISBN 13: 9781931082105
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1053