Gender Play in Mark Twain, 1

Linda A Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character--for the author, that is. Twain "troub... Lees meer

Mark Twain and Metaphor

John Bird

• Hardcover | Mark Twain and His Circle
• More than a study of Mark Twain's language, this book delves into the psychological aspects of metaphor to reveal the writer's attitudes and thoughts,... Lees meer

Mark Twain and the American West

Joseph L Coulombe

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• In Mark Twain and the American West , Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West t... Lees meer

Mark Twain in Paradise

Donald Hoffmann

• Hardcover | Mark Twain and His Circle
• A comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. This book sheds light on both ... Lees meer

Cosmopolitan Twain

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain's life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to t... Lees meer

Hatching Ruin, Or, Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy

Charles H Gold

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• In " Hatching Ruin," Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens's business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W... Lees meer

The Life of Mark Twain

Gary Scharnhorst

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne... Lees meer

Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter

James E Caron

• Hardcover | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his best-selling The Innocents Abroad , he was just another struggling writer perfecting his craft-... Lees meer

Constructing Mark Twain

Laura E. Skandera Trombley

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the ... Lees meer

Mark Twain and Medicine

K Patrick Ober

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Mark Twain has always been America's spokesman, and his comments on a wide range of topics continue to be accurate, valid, and frequently amusing. His... Lees meer

Mark Twain

James Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, James M. Cox pursues the development of Mark Twain's humor through all the forms it took from "The Jumping Frog" to ... Lees meer

Searching for Jim

Terrell Dempsey

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens's remarks to the contrary in his auto... Lees meer

Mark Twain in Paradise

Donald Hoffmann

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and ... Lees meer

Mark Twain and the American West

Joseph L Coulombe

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• In Mark Twain and the American West , Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West t... Lees meer

Mark Twain in Japan

Tsuyoshi Ishihara

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Best known for his sharp wit and his portrayals of life along the banks of the Mississippi River, Mark Twain is indeed an American icon, and many scho... Lees meer

Mark Twain and Human Nature

Tom Quirk

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the s... Lees meer

Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter

James E Caron

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle | nr. 1
• Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his best-selling The Innocents Abroad , he was just another struggling writer perfecting his craft-... Lees meer

Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger

Joseph Csicsila

• Paperback | Engels | Mark Twain and His Circle
• In this first book on No. 44 in thirty years, thirteen especially commissioned essays by some of today's most accomplished Twain scholars cover an arr... Lees meer