Gary Scharnhorst
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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. During this time he wrote and published some of his best-known works, including Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on...
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English
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"Chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future."--Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens was one of the most famous people in the world. He also grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works in the last years of his life"--
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Oklahoma western biographies volume 17
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Scarecrow author bibliographies volume no. 82
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Author
Series
Scarecrow author bibliographies volume no. 71
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Author
Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 1218
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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"Senator 'Buzz' Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program." *** "A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was...
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Critical responses in arts and letters volume no. 2
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Literature of the American West volume 1
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English