Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Scharnhorst, Gary (1950-....)
Titre(s) : The life of Mark Twain [Texte imprimé] : the early years, 1835-1871 / Gary Scharnhorst
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The life of Mark Twain
Publication : Columbia (Mo.) : University of Missouri press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXXI-686 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Mark Twain and his circle
Lien à la collection : Mark Twain and his circle series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-655) and index
"This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in
over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored
their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular
period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be
compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen
to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of
view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what
is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews
surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens's life in
Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have
been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably
the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination."--Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) -- Résidences et lieux familiers
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826221445. - ISBN 0826221440 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455321890
Notice n° :
FRBNF45532189
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Ancestry ; The villages ; Hannibal ; Journeyman printer ; The river ; The war
; The mines ; Virginia City ; From Virginia City to San Francisco ; San Francisco
; The Sandwich Islands ; San Francisco redux ; New York ; The voyage ; Washington,
D.C. ; The West revisited ; Hartford, Elmira, and Buffalo ; Buffalo exitus.
