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Mark Twain

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext "Impossible to put down--and the best single introduction to the complex force that was Samuel Clemens--Larzer Ziff's Mark Twain is a tour de force of insight, wit, and brevity: an illumination, and a pleasure, from start to finish. --Brenda Wineapple, author of Hawthorne: A Life Informationen zum Autor Larzer Ziff is Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of six books on American literary culture, including The American 1890s, which won the Christian Gauss Award, and he is the editor of works by Emerson, Thoreau, Stephen Crane, Melville, Hawthorne, and Dreiser. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext Part of the Lives and Legacies series, this volume is a marvelous, compact introduction to the life and legacy of Mark Twain. Zusammenfassung Mark Twain is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures. Ziff considers Twain's career and his works in the context of the literary and social culture of his time and his own ambiguous attitude towards his fame as a humorist.

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