The Autobiography of Mark Twain: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0060955422 ISBN 13: 9780060955427

Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000

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Book by Neider Charles

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ONE OF THE BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE CENTURY

-- THE MODERN LIBRARY

"A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness, and all in that unsurpassed American prose."-- "New York Herald Tribune Book Review""Magnificently alive."-"Library Journal

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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 the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."

--From the Introduction by Charles Neider

Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences.

Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0060955422
• ISBN 13: 9780060955427
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 562
• Herausgeber: Neider Charles