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Collected Nonfiction Volume 1 - Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches (Hardcover)
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Collected Nonfiction Volume 1 - Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family
life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most
famous writer and a legend in his own lifetime. Though chiefly
known today for his classic novels of childhood, Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn, and for his short stories, he produced even more
nonfiction of an impressive quality. Twain lived a life as exciting
as his fiction, and in his Autobiography we find him running wild,
like the heroes of his novels, in the countryside around his
childhood home in Missouri and navigating the treacherous waters of
the Mississippi River as a trained steamboat pilot, while his
letters show him travelling thousands of miles over the United
States on hectic lecture tours (he was a great showman, raconteur
and performer of his own works), hobnobbing with princes and
presidents and being lionized in the capitals of Europe. His
trademark wit, candour, sarcasm and irrepressible humour shine
through on every page of this selection, but here too, beyond the
entertainer, we discover in his speeches and essays the social and
moral issues - slavery, imperialism - which concerned him, and meet
the private man behind that towering public figure, whose long
marriage never lost its romance, but who bore the sorrow of losing
two of his three daughters while still in their twenties. A
sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious and always riveting read.
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