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The Life of Mark Twain : The Middle Years, 1871–1891, Hardback Book

The Life of Mark Twain : The Middle Years, 1871–1891 Hardback

Part of the Mark Twain and His Circle series

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Following on the heels of the first volume, The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871–1891, is the second of three volumes in this critically acclaimed autobiography.

This volume chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira and Hartford in spring 1871 and his departure with his family from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. This is the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century.

In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume.

In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid?

On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year.

Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens's life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost.

Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.

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