The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871
2018
Book
"In this first volume, Scharnhorst covers Clemen's life from his childhood Missouri to his work in printshops, from his career as a Mississippi River pilot to his writing stint in Nevada, and from his trip to Europe and the Holy Land o his move east to Buffalo, New York."--Inside dust jacket.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780826221445
- 0826221440
Description: xxxi, 686 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Ancestry
- The villages
- Hannibal
- Journeyman printer
- The river
- The war
- The mines
- Virginia City
- From Virginia City to San Francisco
- San Francisco
- Sandwich Islands
- San Francisco redux
- New York
- The voyage
- Washington, D.C.
- The West revisited
- Hartford, Elmira, and Buffalo
- Buffalo exitus.
LCCN: 2017044383
Control Number: 2472978
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2018]