"The Man Who Was Mark Twain" by Guy A. Cardwell

The Man Who Was Mark Twain Images and Ideologies Guy A. Cardwell

Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
01 Apr 1981
ISBN:
9780300049503
Dimensions:
296 pages: 229 x 152 x 20mm
Illustrations:
black & white illustrations

Elegantly written and carefully reasoned, this book brings us the, fascinatingly flawed character behind the image of a cultural hero. Mark Twain has long been idealized as the representative American, the personification of America's mythic past. Here he is shown by a distinguished Twain scholar and editor to be a man with debilitating tensions and neuroses-a figure with whom modern Americans may identify more closely if less comfortably.