Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume I (in Two Volumes)

Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Pain

Beschreibung

"Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind." -Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain's Letters (1917) Mark Twain's Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters by Mark Twain, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937), Twain's literary estate agent and biographer, and published posthumously in 1917. These letters offer us a glimpse into the character of Mark Twain and show us the background to his books. These letters are a must for anyone interested in one of America's greatest writers, Mark Twain.

Autor

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1917
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781646793709
• ISBN-10: 1646793706
• Artikelnr.: 62066343