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Authors, American 19th century Biography Friendship United States Case studies Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 Literary art Humorists, American 19th century Biography Presidents United States Biography Race relations in literature Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Friends and associates Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Literary art United States Race relationsWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: A colorful portrait of the well known author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.409 WARSummary: Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Gold 2001
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARPowers, Ron.
Summary: Mark Twain's works are a living national treasury, yet somehow, beneath the vast river of literature that he left behind, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man who became Mark Twain, has receded from view, leaving us with only faint and often trivialized remnants of his towering personality. Here, author Powers recreates the 19th century's vital landscapes and tumultuous events while restoring the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK POWTwain, Mark
Summary: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818..4 TWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 1Twain, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWA Vol. 2Twain, Mark
Summary: "This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWATwain, Mark
Summary: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK TWALystra, Karen.
Contents: 1. Mark Twain--and Sam's women -- 2. Heartbreak -- 3. Rearranging the household -- 4. Looking for love -- 5. A pact with the devil -- 6. Life in the sanitarium -- 7. Someone to love him and pet him -- 8. A viper to her bosom -- 9. Innocence at home -- 10. Stormfield -- 11. An American Lear -- 12. Illusions of love -- 13. Unraveling -- 14. The exile returns -- 15. Confrontation -- 16. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWAKaplan, Justin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEPerry, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 PERPerry, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trafe Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PERShelden, Michael.
Summary: Drawing heavily on Twain's own letters and journals, Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this account of the legendary author's life, recounting both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK SheTwain, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TWATwain, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999