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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 CHALystra, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWATwain, Mark
Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainTwain, Mark
Summary: Mark Twain’s life—one of the richest and raciest America has known—is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America’s most colorful personalities. The words are Twain’s own, taken from his writings—not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK TWATwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TWAPerry, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 PERPerry, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trafe Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PERPflueger, Lynda.
Summary: A biography of the American humorist and writer whose writing greatly reflected the events of his life, particularly his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB TWAIN PFLShelden, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK SheTarnoff, Ben.
Summary: Traces the birth of modern America as reflected in the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Ina Coolbrith, placing their achievements and personal lives against a backdrop of the post-Gold Rush era in California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 810.9 TARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 TARTwain, 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.
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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
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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK TWASummary: Brings together the words of over 60 writers, from Twain's earliest reviews to today, probing the many facets of his incomparable humor, his revolutionary use of vernacular language, his exploration of the realities of American life, and his fearless opposition to the injustices and outrages of an imperialistic age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Classics of the United States, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 MARMorris, Roy.
Summary: Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK MORWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: A colorful portrait of the well known author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.409 WARNafisi, Azar.
Summary: "A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 NAFLevy, Andrew
Summary: A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 LEVTwain, Mark
Summary: Compiles letters, essays, diaries, and excerpts about heaven, hell, sinners, and saints.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit TwainTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TWATwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Iowa Center for Textual Studies by the University of California Press 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.409 TWATwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.409 TWAZwonitzer, Mark
Summary: "John Hay, famous as Lincoln's private secretary and later as secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for being 'Mark Twain,' grew up fifty miles apart, on the banks of the Mississippi River, in thesame rural antebellum stew of race and class and want. This shared history helped draw them together when they first met as up-and-coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ZWOKaplan, Justin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1966