Mark Twain
Subtitle: the divided mind of America's best-loved writer
By: David W. Levy
Series: The library of American biography; Library of American biography (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780205553754
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; American Humorists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Growing up in Hannibal; title: The great Mississippi; title: A young man goes West; title: Making God's creatures laugh; title: A cynic among the pilgrims; title: Livy; title: Hartford; title: A writer of remarkable books; title: "The best book we've had"; title: A writer who thought he was a businessman; title: Writing his way out of debt; title: At the end, dark despair; title: Epilogue; title: Study and discussion questions.