num_pages: 415
description: With brilliant immediacy, Mr Clemens &amp; Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual personae symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality &amp; freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, &amp; the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer &amp; Huckleberry Finn. As Mr Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes &amp; lived the extravagent life that Twain despised. Set against the richly drawn background of the post-Civil War period that Twain dubbed the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens &amp; Mark Twain is sure to entertain &amp; enlighten both general readers &amp; scholars alike.
language: English
title: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
titlecomplete: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
genres: History, Books About Books, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Writing, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 346
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: -94665600000
name: National Book Award
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Simon & Schuster (NY)