Mark Twain - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic, is the author of ten books and the co-author of two, including the #1 New York Times bestseller FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Pimlico). Klappentext A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings us the astonishing life story of Mark Twain - America's most influential and beloved author, and the man behind HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Zusammenfassung 'Who was Mark Twain? On our side of the Atlantic we think of him as the author of a couple of imperishable boys' adventures - those of Tom Sawyer and his uncivilisable friend Huckleberry Finn, the picturesque chronicler of the life on the Mississippi river in the days of the early 19th century. But over there he is a national monument; not only the most famous American author of his time, but perhaps of all time…This exhaustive and enthusiastic biography gives a finely detailed and colourful picture of the rough, tough society of the American South and West before the civil war' DAILY MAIL

Product details

• Authors: Ron Powers, Powers Ron
• Publisher: Pocket Books UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.10.2006
• EAN: 9781416525998
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-2599-8
• No. of pages: 719
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form