Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography ()
Mark Twain Himself Hardcover – 1960
by Milton Meltzer (Author)
Publisher: Bonanza;
WINGS BOOKS
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 illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to Twain's text. Presented in the hundreds of photos, prints, drawings, cartoons, and paintings is Twain himself, from the apprentice in his printer's cap to the dying world-famous figure finishing his last voyage in a wheelchair. Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography will not only inform and entertain the casual reader but will provide a valuable resource to scholars and teachers of Twain as well.
Contents
MISSOURI BOYHOOD 1 I Did It for Florida 2
TRAMP PRINTER 24 A Glorious Sight 26
MISSISSIPPI PILOT 33 Learning the Mississippi 34
LIT OUT FOR THE TERRITORY 44 Overland Stage to Nevada 44
REPORTER AT LARGE 68 Awful Slavery for a Lazy 70
A Night in Jail 86
THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8 110 Twain on Dickens 112
FAMILY LIFE Cont Mark Twains House 123
WRITER AT WORK 148 An Author for 20 Years and an Ass for 55 150
PATENTS PUBLISHING AND 190 A Charming Machine 194
A PEN WARMED UP IN HELL 202 The Moralist of the Main 204
ROVING AMBASSADOR 214 Another Throne Gone Down 218
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK 230 A GhostWritten Obituary 233
A Reading List 291
Index 299
Copyright
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 211 - It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things : freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Page 151 - Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-tooFrench French bean ! Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band, If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand.
Page 77 - Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its...
Page 207 - You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags — that...
Page 34 - I was so far above the water that I seemed perched on a mountain, and her decks stretched so far away, fore and aft, below me, that I wondered how I could ever have considered the little Paul Jones a large craft.
Page 167 - ... you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way...
Page 7 - After ten more minutes the town is dead again, and the town drunkard asleep by the skids once more. My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men and could hang anybody that offended him. This was distinction enough for me as a general thing; but the desire to be a steamboatman kept intruding, nevertheless. I first wanted to be a cabin-boy...
Page 6 - ... came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained.
Page 169 - I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now.
Page 275 - Deal" from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The Gilded Age gave an entire era its name. "The future historian of America," wrote George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Clemens, "will find your works as indispensable to him as a French historian finds the political tracts of Voltaire."1 There is a Mark Twain Bank in St.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography Volume 1 of Mark Twain and his circle series |
| Authors | Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer |
| Editor | Milton Meltzer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press, 2002 |
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這本1988年再版的書，應該是取材；Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography Paperback – December 15, 1991
by Justin Kaplan
by Justin Kaplan
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (December 15, 1991)
Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America’s “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan’s extraordinary biography.
With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, and the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived the extravagant life that Mark Twain despised. Kaplan effectively portrays the triumphant-tragic man whose achievements and failures, laughter and anger, reflect a crucial generation in our past as well as his own dark, divided, and remarkably contemporary spirit.
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brilliantly conveys this towering literary figure who was himself a symbol of the peculiarly American conflict between moral scrutiny and the drive to succeed. Mr. Clemens lived the Gilded Life that Mark Twain despised. The merging and fragmenting of these and other identities, as the biography unfolds, results in a magnificent projection of the whole man; the great comic spirit; and the exuberant, tragic human being, who, his friend William Dean Howells said, was “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”
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