THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG; and other stories and essays
de TWAIN, Mark
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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NY: Harper, 1900. First Edition. State 2 with the plate opposit p. 2 not having the line "[page 2" and the leaves bulking 1-3/16". 8vo, pp. 398 + adv. Bound in gold stamped red cloth, spine little faded, a good tight copy. Ex-library copy with bookplates in the front and rear, rear hinge starting. BAL 3459.
Sinopsis
Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and raised in nearby Hannibal. After apprenticing as a printer, he left home at 18 to travel the world. He returned to captain a Mississippi riverboat for four years, then headed west on a stage coach, filing absurdist travel stories for newspapers along the way—using a river boater's warning for shallow waters as his pen-name. Chased out of San Francisco after reporting on the police chief, he hid in a mining town and overheard a yarn he turned into a successful story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". But true fame came with his 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . It's sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , is considered one of the world's great masterpieces. In demand, Twain wrote prolifically and lectured far and wide. He also founded a publishing house, publishing the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. But when an investment in an early typewriter failed, he fled the U.S. for Europe—a trip that saw the death of his daughter. His wife died soon thereafter. Twain overcame his financial troubles, but not the loss of his loved ones, and his last writings were dark works stretching beyond his homespun narrative to fantasy, science fiction, and scathing political commentary. He died in 1910.
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- Título
- THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG; and other stories and essays
- Autor
- TWAIN, Mark
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Harper
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1900
- Palabras clave
- lit
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