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OverviewThis three-volume, hardcover set of Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Samuel Clemens includes The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871; The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871-1891; and The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gary ScharnhorstPublisher: University of Missouri Press Imprint: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 9780826222770ISBN 10: 0826222773 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Among (by my count) nearly one hundred biographies and memoirs, Gary Scharnhorst's volumes have managed what perhaps no other biography has, piecing together a narrative of Samuel L. Clemens's life more fully realized, but not fulsomely so, than all the rest. . . . Scharnhorst's three-volume effort may be the closest view we ever can have of the cultural comet called Mark Twain."" --James E. Caron, author of Satire as Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern ""Truthiness"" as Civic Engagement ""Generous but never apologetic, Scharnhorst ably reveals a complex man: irascible, vain, and hungry for adulation. An authoritative portrait of the iconic and iconoclastic author."" --Kirkus, starred review ""Scharnhorst uses exhaustive research and granular detail to great effect, creating a fantastic portrait of his subject. This coda to a well-lived life is a stunner."" --Publishers Weekly ""The scholarship is astonishingly vast as well as precise, offering new insights and correcting a number of myths about America's greatest writer. It is the biography to depend upon, and it also makes splendid reading, garnished with humor and wit befitting the life of the extraordinary man it reveals."" --Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas-San Antonio, author of Jack London's Racial Lives: A Critical Biography" Among (by my count) nearly one hundred biographies and memoirs, Gary Scharnhorst's volumes have managed what perhaps no other biography has, piecing together a narrative of Samuel L. Clemens's life more fully realized, but not fulsomely so, than all the rest. . . . Scharnhorst's three-volume effort may be the closest view we ever can have of the cultural comet called Mark Twain. --James E. Caron, author of Satire as Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern Truthiness as Civic Engagement Generous but never apologetic, Scharnhorst ably reveals a complex man: irascible, vain, and hungry for adulation. An authoritative portrait of the iconic and iconoclastic author. --Kirkus, starred review Scharnhorst uses exhaustive research and granular detail to great effect, creating a fantastic portrait of his subject. This coda to a well-lived life is a stunner. --Publishers Weekly The scholarship is astonishingly vast as well as precise, offering new insights and correcting a number of myths about America's greatest writer. It is the biography to depend upon, and it also makes splendid reading, garnished with humor and wit befitting the life of the extraordinary man it reveals. --Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas-San Antonio, author of Jack London's Racial Lives: A Critical Biography Author InformationGary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of fifty books, including Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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