Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in
part exemplified America's "Gilded Age," comes alive in Justin
Kaplan's extraordinary biography. With brilliant immediacy, Mr.
Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure
whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict
between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As Mark
Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a
fiery hatred of pretension, and the author of such classics as Tom
Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens, he was the star who
married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on
harebrained financial schemes, and lived the extravagant life that
Mark Twain despised. Kaplan effectively portrays the
triumphant-tragic man whose achievements and failures, laughter and
anger, reflect a crucial generation in our past as well as his own
dark, divided, and remarkably contemporary spirit. Mr. Clemens and
Mark Twain brilliantly conveys this towering literary figure who
was himself a symbol of the peculiarly American conflict between
moral scrutiny and the drive to succeed. Mr. Clemens lived the
Gilded Life that Mark Twain despised. The merging and fragmenting
of these and other identities, as the biography unfolds, results in
a magnificent projection of the whole man; the great comic spirit;
and the exuberant, tragic human being, who, his friend William Dean
Howells said, was "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our
literature."
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