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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Mark M Twain
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Description for Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Paperback. Mark Twain's "Own Autobiography" stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. This book covers a wealth of critical work done on Twain since 1990. It also includes a discussion of literary domesticity, locating the autobiography within the history of Twain's literary work and within Twain's own understanding and experience of domestic concerns. Editor(s): Kiskis, Michael J. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Mark Twain's ""Own Autobiography"" stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence - ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: 'Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true'. More than the story of a literary career, this memoir is anchored in the writer's relation to his family - what they meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also brims with many of Twain's best comic anecdotes about his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures ... Read more
Mark Twain's ""Own Autobiography"" stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence - ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: 'Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true'. More than the story of a literary career, this memoir is anchored in the writer's relation to his family - what they meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also brims with many of Twain's best comic anecdotes about his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299234744
SKU
V9780299234744
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About Mark M Twain
Alan Gribben is Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, and the author of Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction and numerous articles on Twain. He is a co-founder of the Mark Twain Circle of America and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College. Jeffrey Alan Melton is Associate Professor of English at ... Read more
Reviews for Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
"Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true." - Mark Twain "Distinctly Mark Twain." - Publishers Weekly"