Mark Twain

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“The broad, seductive. Mark Twain flows like the river Mississippi, its prose is inspired by Mark Twain.” – Boston Globe

“Cherno writes with such ease and clarity. For all its length and expansion, [Mark Twain] Is deeply absorbed. ” – Washington Post

Pulitzer Award winning biography Ron Cherno published the full, attractive and complex life of the author, which has long been celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain

Before Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langahorn Clemens. Born in 1835, the person who would become the first of America, and the most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood to dream of piloting steamboats on Mississippi. But when the Civil War disrupts his career on the river, the young Twain went to the west in the Nevada region and accepted a job in a local newspaper, writing that the Dispatch wrote that he had attracted attention to his cruelty and humor. It was not long ago when the former Steamboat pilot of Missouri was recognized for her literary talent across the country, writing in the name of a pen that she would immortal.

In this richly fine picture of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographical writer Ron Cherno brings many of his powers to tolerate a person who shamelessly sought fame and fate, and prepared his personality with careful care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist and lecturer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went to write to Tom Sawyer’s Adventures and the Adventure of the Hathleberry Finn. He thrown himself in a hurry in American culture, and emerged as the country’s most notable political pundit. At the same time, his crazy business enterprises eventually insolvency to him; Financially, Twain and his family spent nine incidents in exile in Europe. He faced the death of his wife and two daughters, and the final stage of his life was marked by heart pain, political crusade and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured deep forces in the game.

Drawing on Twain’s bouquental archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Cherno catch the person whose career reflected the west side of the country, industrialization and foreign wars, and who were the most important white writers of their generations who were fully with the legacy of slavery. Today, a hundred years after his death, Twain’s writing continues to be read, debated and quoted. In this magnificent work of scholarship, a tribute to the author’s talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often crazy life of one of the most original characters in American history.