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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II - 1877-1883 (Hardcover)
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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II - 1877-1883 (Hardcover)
Series: Mark Twain Papers, 8
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The twelve notebooks in volume 1 provided information about the
eighteen years in which the most profound, even dramatic, changes
took place in Clemens' life. He early achieved the limits of his
boyhood ambition by becoming a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi
River, a position there is no reason to believe he would have
abandoned if the Civil War had not forced him to do so. In fleeing
from a war which principle and temperament prevented him from
supporting, Clemens entered into the first stages of his literary
career by serving as a reporter for newspapers in Virginia City and
San Francisco. When the restricted experiences available to a local
reporter had been thoroughly explored, he moved on as a traveling
correspondent to the Sandwich Islands and then still farther to
Europe and the Near East. The latter travels provided him with
material for The Innocents Abroad, the book that established Mark
Twain as a popular author with an international reputation in 1869.
In 1872 he further exploited his personal history by publishing
Roughing It and in the same year visited England to gather material
on English people and institutions. He returned to England the
following year, this time accompanied by his family and by a
secretary who would record the observations printed as the last
notebook in volume 1. Volume 2 of Mark Twain's Notebooks and
Journals, documenting Clemens' activities in the years from 1877 to
1883, consists largely of the record of three trips which would
serve as the source for three travel narratives: the excursion to
Bermuda, a prolonged tour of Europe, and an evocative return to the
Mississippi River. Despite the common impulse to preserve
observations and impressions for literary use, the contents of the
notebooks are remarkably different in their vitality-and the works
which developed from the notes are correspondingly varied.
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