Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain : A Biography (Paperback)

from dasam

This is a fascinating biography of the two characters invented by their author: Samuel Clemens & Mark Twain---and the Jekyll and Hyde relationship between the two. Clemens/Twain was a great humorist and at his best in some of his writings or onstage, something Hal Holbrook seems to capture well. ...

from AliceAnna

An excellent warts and all biography of a legend. I am most struck by what an utter shame it is that his business dealings and failures prevented him from writing so much more. He was a man of his times, though. Writing was work. He was from the Gilded Age where men struck it rich on a whim. Litt...

from MarysGirl

This was a slog. I "speed-read" several passages. Howard Mumford Jones on the back says, "The richest, most subtle, and best-sustained analysis of Mark Twain anywhere to be found..." He may be right, but that's the trouble - this is a sustained analysis. The relentless psychological analysis bogg...

from lschiff

Just finished last night. Lots of interesting details about Clemens and an interesting glimpse into that period of history in the U.S. A birthday present from Leslie--can't wait to dive into it tonight!