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Getting to be Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Getting to be Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure
familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally.
But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life
as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind
of Samuel Clemens. It was some time before he took full possession
of the personality the world now recognizes. This is the story of
the coming of age of Mark Twain. It begins in 1867, with Clemens
stepping off the steamship Quaker City and almost immediately
declaring himself "in a fidget to move." It comes to a close in
1871, with Clemens settling in Hartford. Mark Twain was
substantially formed during the intervening years, as Clemens came
East, gained fame and fortune with the publication of Innocents
Abroad, courted and married Olivia Langdon, and established himself
as a professional writer. Each of these steps represented a
profound change in the former Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope as
he sifted through the elements in his personality and began to
assume the qualities we now associate with him. The tale that
unfolds here shows how, through that process, the Mark Twain of the
late 1860s became the Mark Twain of all time. This title is part of
UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1991.
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