Mark Twain's Letters Volume 1 & 2 : 1853-1875

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The initial volume in the first comprehensive edition of Twain's letters takes us from 1853 when at age 17, he left Hannibal to 1866 when at age 31, he was on the verge of a great career. Lively and informative, they are addressed mostly to family members and record Twain's erratic progress from Mississippi riverboat apprentice-pilot to Nevada Territory gold prospector to San Francisco newspaper reporter.

In the second volume we meet young Sam Clemens - in the world, getting famous, making love - in letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of "The Jumping Frog", soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was - from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and, on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume will delight and inform both scholars and general readers.

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

"At last we are getting superb editions of Mark Twain's writings, in full detail for scholars and libraries and in an accessible but still precise form for students and the public. That, as Twain might have said to the members of his Damned Human Race Luncheon Club, is about the best human beings can do." (Harold H. Kolb, Jr.).


AV MARK TWAIN: En tripp kring gamla världen / Tom Sawyer / På Mississippi / Huckleberry Finns äventyr / Prinsen och tiggargossen / Tom Sawyer på resa / Tom Sawyer som detektiv / Johanna från Domrémy / En landstrykares anteckningar / Den hoppande grodan och andra humoresker / Tom Sawyers äventyr / En droppe negerblod / Slita hund / Snälla gosar och stygga.