Chasing the Last Laugh
How Mark Twain Escaped Debt and Disgrace with a Round-The-World Comedy Tour
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In the 1890s, Mark Twain came back from the dead. The famous author s career was collapsing, his masterpieces were at risk of falling into oblivion, and he was even mistakenly reported dead. But Twain orchestrated an amazing late-in-life comeback from bankruptcy, bad reviews, and family disaster by setting out on an unprecedented international comedy tour to restore his fortunes. Richard Zacks s Chasing the Last Laugh captures some of Twain s cleverest and funniest moments many newly discovered in unpublished notebooks and letters as he rode elephants in India, sorted diamonds in South Africa,...
In the 1890s, Mark Twain came back from the dead. The famous author s career was collapsing, his masterpieces were at risk of falling into oblivion, and he was even mistakenly reported dead. But Twain orchestrated an amazing late-in-life comeback from bankruptcy, bad reviews, and family disaster by setting out on an unprecedented international comedy tour to restore his fortunes. Richard Zacks s Chasing the Last Laugh captures some of Twain s cleverest and funniest moments many newly discovered in unpublished notebooks and letters as he rode elephants in India, sorted diamonds in South Africa, and talked his way out of hell ninety minutes at a time. This untold chapter in the author s life began with ridiculously bad choices and ended in hard-won triumph.
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