Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
by Kaplan, Justin frey50
Published by : Simon and Schuster (New York) , 1966 Physical details: 424 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | 817.4 Kap (Browse shelf) | Available | 32663 |
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| 817 Van Those funny kids! | 817.008 Fec 5,000 one and two liners for any and every occasion | 817.08 Mod Modern American humor | 817.4 Kap Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain | 817.5 Ben The Treasurer's Report | 817.5 Ben Chips off the old Benchley | 817.5 Fun Candid Kids |
Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967
"A roving commission" -- "The tide of a great popular movement" -- "The fortune of my life" -- "I do not live backwards" -- "Little Sammy in fairy land" -- "A popular author's death rattle" -- "I did not know I was a lion" -- "Era of incredible rotteness" -- "Busiest white man in America" -- Spirits of '76 -- "The free air of Europe" -- "Everything a man could have" -- "Our great century" -- The yankee and the machine -- "Get me out of business!" -- "Never quite sane in the night" -- "Whited sepulchre."
"Although this biography of Mark Twain begins when Twain is 31 ... the book is a full account of Twain, his life and his work related both to his early years and to the 'Gilded Age' of his mature life."