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Mark Twain : a life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powers, Ron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Humorists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • "Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39)
  • "The white town, drowsing..." (1839)
  • Of words and the word (1840-42)
  • The Hannibal decade (1843-53)
  • Apprentice (1848-51)
  • Rambler (1852-53)
  • "So far from home..." (1853-56)
  • The language of water (1856-58)
  • Ranger (1858-61)
  • Washoe (1861-62)
  • A journalistic counterculture (1862-63)
  • "Mark Twain-more of him" (1863)
  • Code Duello (1863-64)
  • A villainous backwoods, sketch (1864-65)
  • "...and I began to talk" (1865-66)
  • On the road (1866-67)
  • Back East (1867)
  • "move-move-Move!" (1867)
  • Pilgrims and sinners (1867)
  • In the thrall of mother bear (October 1867-New Year's Day 1868)
  • "A work humorously inclined..." (February-July 1868)
  • The girl in the miniature (July 1868-October 1868)
  • American vandal (October-December 1868)
  • "Quite worthy of the best" (1869)
  • Fairyland (1870)
  • "My hated non de plume..." (1871)
  • Sociable Jimmy (1871-72)
  • The lion of London (1872-73)
  • Gilded (1873-74)
  • Quarry farm and nook farm (1874-75)
  • The man in the moon (1875)
  • "It befell yt one did breake wind..." (1876)
  • God's fool (1877)
  • Abroad again (1878-79)
  • "A personal hatred for humbug" (1880)
  • "A powerful good time" (1881-82)
  • "All right, then..." (1882-83)
  • The American novel (1884-85)
  • Roll over, Lord Byron (1886-87)
  • "I have fed so full on sorrows ..." (1887-90)
  • "We are skimming along like paupers..." (1891-June 1893)
  • Savior (1893-94)
  • Thunder-stroke (1895-96)
  • Exile and return (1896-1900)
  • Sitting in darkness (1900-1905).