The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography by Fred Kaplan (2003 Doubleday Hardback edition)

Condition: Very Good: Very good condition for a used book! Minimal wear. See images for the condition of this book.Blurb: One of our most distinguished biographers offers a bold, revisionist view of the inimitable Mark Twain.Mark Twain invented American literature. His humor, his fearless evocation of how ordinary people live and speak, his ferocious social criticism, all make him the progenitor of a truly national literature. And his extraordinary books—including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age, Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi—were drawn from his extraordinary life. Based on original research, including access to previously unpublished correspondence, The Singular Mark Twain presents the first fully integrated portrait of this great American icon.Few Americans, let alone American writers, lived such a large and eventful life. From his idyllic Hannibal, Missouri, childhood to his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, fr