EAN: 9780525561729

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller! One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks “Comprehensive enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River its prose propelled by Mark Twain’s own exuberance.” — The Boston Globe “Chernow writes with such ease and clarity . . . For all its length and detail [ Mark Twain ] is deeply absorbing throughout.” — The Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full fascinating and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature Mark Twain Before he was Mark Twain he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835 the man who would become America’s first and most influential literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance writing under a pen name that he would immortalize. In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist satirist and lecturer he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . He threw himself into the hurly-burly of American culture and emerged as the nation’s most notable political pundit. At the same time his madcap business ventures eventually bankrupted him to economize Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache political crusades and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain’s bountiful archives including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country’s westward expansion industrialization and foreign wars and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. Today more than one hundred years after his death Twain’s writing continues to be read debated and quoted. In this brilliant work of scholarship a moving tribute to the writer’s talent and humanity Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.

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