Mark Twain / by Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film directed by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan and Geoffrey C. Ward ; with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Susanna Steisel and Pam Tubridy Baucom, and contributions by Russell Banks [and others]
Publisher's description: Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “m...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- A boy's paradise
- Life on the Mississippi
- Hannibal's Sam Clemens / by Ron Powers
- Roughing it
- Innocents abroad
- The best girl in all the world
- Hartford's Mark Twain / by John Boyer
- The gilded age
- Truth
- The six-letter word / by Jocelyn Chadwick
- A Connecticut Yankee
- Never quite sane in the night
- Following the equator
- Aren't we funny animals? : an interview with Hal Holbrook
- Treatment for the damned
- I will have my say
- Out at the edges / by Russell Banks
- The most conspicuous person.