Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Kaplan, Justin
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Kaplan, Justin

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age," comes...
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Kaplan, Justin

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

$65.20
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Kaplan, Justin

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

$65.20
Author: Justin Kaplan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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."

Author: Justin Kaplan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 12/15/1991
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780671748074

About the Author
Justin Kaplan is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and of Walt Whitman: A Life, which won the American Book Award. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, novelist Anne Bernay
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