| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780520238923 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 31104348 | | Item#: BNX7CH | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.25L x 1.75T | | Pages: 885 |
|
|
|
| | | | "Arthur was getting ready for his first sleepover. "It isn't until Saturday," called his mother. "Come in and eat your breakfast.".." (from the first line) Mark Twain's "imaginative interpretation" of his experience as a prospector, miner, journalist in the West in Nevada, California, and the Sandwich Islands, and finally as a lecturer in 1866. It was in the West that Twain found and eventually accepted his vocation as a humorist and teller of tall tales.
Annotation:
This comic narrative is based on Twain's six years of "variegated vagabonding" in the American West at the height of silver-mining fever. Twain's naive narrator, after immersion in the rough and practical American West, becomes educated in the ways of the world. Twain's perennial theme of the outsider trying to fit into a society that is alien to him is articulated for the first time in this 1872 book.
| PraisePhiladelphia Inquirer
"Never before have so many distinguished writers pondered the work of such a major American literary figure in one place, and they handle the task with the excellence it deserves." |
| Author Bio| Mark Twain | | Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River. As a teenager, he began writing short sketches for his brother's newspaper. When he was older, Clemens became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, a job that ended with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. He continued to work as a newspaper reporter, and in 1863 began signing his articles with the name Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathoms deep." In 1865, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, and became a sensation nationwide. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER was published in 1876, but it was its sequel, HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884), that is acknowledged as Twain's greatest work. A masterpiece of American literature, the novel is notable among other things for its uniquely American subject and its brilliant use of dialect. Twain's works in general are full of the author's satiric humor, his disdain for pretension and hypocrisy, and his brilliant characterizations. |
| |
|
|
__USERID__
/prod/roughing-it/q/loc/106/31104348.html
|
