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Kaplan, Justin.

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain : a biography / - New York : Simon and Schuster, �1966. - 424 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index.

"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."



Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967.

ISBN: 0671207075 9780671207076

LCCN: 66017603

Subjects--Personal Names:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, pseud. de Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Twain, Mark, (1835-1910) --Biographies.
Twain, Mark.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
�Ecrivains am�ericains--19e si�ecle.

Subjects--Index Terms: Authors, American 19th century Biography Twain, Mark 1835-1910

LC Class. No.: PS1331 / .K33

Dewey Class. No.: 817.4