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Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete — Albert Bigelow Paine

Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete

Albert Bigelow Paine

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  • Book language: English
  • 1547 pages

Albert Bigelow Paine's biography of Mark Twain traces the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. This first part covers his ancestry, boyhood in Hannibal, years as a riverboat pilot, western mining and journalism, and the beginnings of his writing as Mark Twain. It offers a detailed portrait of the man and his era.

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Contents

  1. MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY
  2. THE PERSONAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
  3. VOLUME I. Part 1: 1835-1866
  4. AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  5. PREFATORY NOTE
  6. MARK TWAIN—A BIOGRAPHY
  7. I. ANCESTORS
  8. II. THE FORTUNES OF JOHN AND JANE CLEMENS
  9. III. A HUMBLE BIRTHPLACE
  10. IV. BEGINNING A LONG JOURNEY
  11. V. THE WAY OF FORTUNE
  12. VI. A NEW HOME
  13. VII. THE LITTLE TOWN OF HANNIBAL.
  14. VIII. THE FARM
  15. IX. SCHOOL-DAYS
  16. X. EARLY VICISSITUDE AND SORROW
  17. XI. DAYS OF EDUCATION
  18. XII. TOM SAWYER'S BAND
  19. XIII. THE GENTLER SIDE
  20. XIV. THE PASSING OF JOHN CLEMENS
  21. XV. A YOUNG BEN FRANKLIN
  22. XVI. THE TURNING-POINT
  23. XVII. THE HANNIBAL “JOURNAL”
  24. XVIII. THE BEGINNING OF A LITERARY LIFE
  25. XIX. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANKLIN
  26. XX. KEOKUK DAYS
  27. XXI. SCOTCHMAN NAMED MACFARLANE
  28. XXII. THE OLD CALL OF THE RIVER
  29. XXIII. THE SUPREME SCIENCE
  30. XXIV. THE RIVER CURRICULUM

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