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Mark Twain - A Biography
Albert Bigelow Paine
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Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive biography covers Twain's personal and literary life in detail, heretofore unapproached.
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive biography covers Twain's personal and literary life in detail, heretofore unapproached.
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"I am sure I was right, too," she declares; "heroism came natural to him."
Mr. Severance recalls another incident which, as he says, was trivial enough, but not easy to forget:
We were having a little celebration over the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Duncan, wife of our captain. Mark Twain got up and made a little speech, in which he said Mrs. Duncan was really older than Methuselah because she knew a lot of things that Methuselah never heard of. Then he mentioned a number of more or less modern inventions, and wound up by saying, "What did Methuselah know about a barbed-wire fence?"
Except Following the Equator, The Innocents Abroad comes nearer to being history than any other of Mark Twain's travel-books. The notes for it were made on the spot, and there was plenty of fact, plenty of fresh, new experience, plenty of incident to set down. His idea of descriptive travel in th. . . Read More
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This is a wonderful narrative biography of Mark Twain. It's long in accordance with the great writer's life but filled with colorful anecdotes that made me laugh and smile. This is a good read if you love biographies as much as I do.
Mark Twain is one of my favorite authors, so it was interesting to learn more than I previously knew about his life. Considering his limited schooling, how did he learn to write so well?
I knew nothing more than some of his Mississippi River exploits. But I learned that many of his other adventure
A very interesting, detailed, and enlightening coverage of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twains) life, exploits, adventures, development as a writer and humorist. Also covers in detail his personal life, his travels, and his many failed business endeavors.
I loved the first third about his early life. I didn't realize he was successful and famous for most of his life. However the second half of the book was monotonous and of no point. He wa so prolific that the author seemed to value ll of his writings equally. Quite dull by the end, nd long! Oh, we'l
An excellent read and delightful addition to any Mark Twain collection.
Awesome Book. Great way to learn about Mark Twain. I love to read. A+
Mark Twain being one of my favourite authors (and persons) I very much enjoyed the wealth of information given by Albert Bigelow Paine and only skipped a few chapters on copyright and politics. Paine is a very good writer (he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee) and this biography (3 volume
The biographer spent four years with Twain, playing billiards with him, taking dictation from him, even travelling west to interview Twain's old friends.
An excellent and very thorough history of Twain's development.
Interestingly, Paine, the biographer, was a real literary critic who sat on the Puli