Mark Twain

Gold Miners & Guttersnipes (eBook, ePUB)

Tales of California

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From a celebrated American author-collected essays, news articles, fiction, speeches, and letters centered on the nineteenth-century California gold rush.

Mark Twain's legendary insight and wit shine throughout this new selection of his writings, the first to focus on California. As a young man, the celebrated author of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and other classics spent the mid-1860s in California. In this collection of essays, newspaper articles, fiction, speeches, and letters, Twain presents his notoriously unconventional views on a state booming in the wake of the gold rush. His wry humor and irreverent social commentary illuminate everything from fashion, politics, and art to earthquakes, religion, and urban crime. Drawn from hard-to-find sources as well as his ever-popular books, Gold Miners and Guttersnipes: Tales of California by Mark Twain is a fresh and distinctive assortment by one of America's favorite authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chronicle Books LLC
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781452127781
• Artikelnr.: 38096352

Autorenporträt

Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens-the man behind the figure of "Mark Twain"-led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.