Mark Twain''s Letters, Volume 2 - 1867-1868

Here is young Sam Clemens--in the world, getting famous, making love--in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of "The Jumping Frog, " soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was--from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of "Mark Twain's Letters" will delight and inform both scholars and general readers.
This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.

Summary

Contains the letters that trace young Sam Clemens' remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of "The Jumping Frog", soon to be a national and international celebrity.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael B. Frank, Mark Twain, Twain Mark
• Assisted by: Richard Bucci (Editor), Bucci Richard (Editor), Lin Salamo (Editor), Salamo Lin (Editor), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Harriet Elinor Smith (Editor), Ms. Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Smith Harriet E. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.1990
• EAN: 9780520036697
• ISBN: 978-0-520-03669-7
• No. of pages: 704
• Series: Mark Twain Papers; Mark Twain's Letters; Mark Twain Papers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, 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, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form