Mark Twain The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer

Name: Mark Twain The Divided Mind of America's Best-Loved Writer
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ISBN: 9780205553754

ISBN-10: 0205553753

ISBN-13: 9780205553754

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Levy

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The life and writings of a beloved American writer illuminate the Gilded Age and reveal his ambivalence toward the changes wrought by industry and wealth. Like the steamboat on which Mark Twain adopted his pen name, the industrial growth that swept America in the latter half of the nineteenth century prompted Americans to react variously with delight, awe, fear, excitement for the future, and nostalgia for a simpler time. David Levy's biography places Mark Twain and his work in the context of sweeping societal changes: westward expansion, the Civil War, American imperialism,the end of slavery and start of a new chapter in race relations, and the advances and excesses of the Gilded…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication date: 7/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506



Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue



Preparation



Growing up in Hannibal



The Great Mississippi



A Young Man Goes West



Making God's Creatures Laugh



A Cynic Among the Pilgrims



Livy



Fame



Hartford



A Writer of Remarkable Books



"The Best Book We've Had"



Despair



A Writer Who Thought He Was a Businessman



Writing His Way Out of Debt



At the End, Dark Despair


Epilogue


Study and Discussion Questions


A Note on the Sources


Index