Mark Twain
eBook - 2025
The #1 New York Times Bestseller! “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River, its prose propelled by Mark Twain’s own exuberance.” —The Boston Globe“Chernow writes with such ease and clarity . . . For all its length and detail, [Mark Twain] is deeply absorbing throughout.” — The Washington PostPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark TwainBefore he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. ...But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper,...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B0DH1VPLHY |
Release Date | 5/13/2025 |
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ISBN | 9780525561736 |
Release Date | 5/13/2025 |