Dangerous Water
Subtitle: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: October 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780306810862
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; American English; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Social life and customs; Biography/Memoir; Literature; 1835-1910; 19th century; American authors; Authors, American; Biography; Childhood and youth; Twain, Mark,
First sentence: On October 15, 1900, in the twilit moments of the shifting century he had dissected in his books and embodied in his life, Mark Twain reemerged as from a long, dark dream into the welcoming uproar of his native America.