Inventing Mark Twain by Andrew Jay Hoffman

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Inventing Mark Twain by Andrew Jay Hoffman

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Summary

By concentrating on the inventions of Mark Twain, this biography shows readers a life lived, more than most, on the borderline between fact and imagination. Frontier boy Samuel Clemens invented the character of Twain; Twain then reinvented his early years through Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

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Inventing Mark Twain by Andrew Jay Hoffman

This is an absorbing portrait of a literary genius, whose muse was the desire for wealth and fortune, and whose misplaced entrepreneurial enthusiasms more then once endandgered the very money he had worked so hard to earn. Journalist, lecturer, publisher, businessmes and speculator, as well as author and socialiteSamuel Langhorne Clemens was a man of many and conflicting talents. Here Andrew Hoffman peels back the layers to lay bare the essence of on of the world's greatest literary talents.

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ISBN 13 9780297815365
ISBN 10 0297815369
Title Inventing Mark Twain
Author Andrew Jay Hoffman
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1997-06-09
Number of pages 608
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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