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Hoffman, Andrew Jay

 
9780297815365: Inventing Mark Twain

Synopsis

This is an absorbing portrait of a literary genius, whose muse was the desire for wealth and fortune, and whose misplaced entrepreneurial enthusiasms more then once endandgered the very money he had worked so hard to earn. Journalist, lecturer, publisher, businessmes and speculator, as well as author and socialiteSamuel Langhorne Clemens was a man of many and conflicting talents. Here Andrew Hoffman peels back the layers to lay bare the essence of on of the world's greatest literary talents.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain.

Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

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