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Mark Twain
by
Larzer Ziff
Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting of his career, Larzer Ziff offers an incisive, illuminating look at one of the giants of American letters.
Mark Twain em...more
Mark Twain em...more
Hardcover, 126 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Oxford University Press
(first published 2004)
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An extremely short and sweet bio on Twain, this book was actually not quite what I thought I was getting when I read it. It was well researched, but it reflected an aspect of the man's life that could be summed up and easily digested in a couple hours, and I suppose I was looking for this book to teach me something new and profound based on the titles of each of the chapters within the book. The Twain that Ziff presents does seem to be a little different than other scholars - this Twain was a ...more
A delightful short biography of Twain divided into four chapters: Celebrity, Tourist, Novelist, and Humorist. Ziff focuses on Twain's writing with the details of life filled in around those discussions (do not recall if he gets around to Twain's death). He makes me want to read Twain again.
"With A Connecticut Yankee, a novel at war with itself yet absorbing in every detail, Mark Twain foreshadowed the ambiguous condition of the modern American writer, exposing the false valu...more
"With A Connecticut Yankee, a novel at war with itself yet absorbing in every detail, Mark Twain foreshadowed the ambiguous condition of the modern American writer, exposing the false valu...more
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