Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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ISBN: 0688161103 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, June 1998
Offers a new interpretation of Clemens' life and work and explores the profound needs that led him to create the Twain persona
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This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
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