Dec 30, 2009
The Autobiography of Mark Twain | The Autobiography of Mark Twain
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1924
- Time of Work: 1873–1909
- Setting: Missouri, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, California,
Italy, and the Mississippi River
- Principal Characters: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Olivia Langdon Clemens, Clara Clemens, Susy Clemens, Charles Webster, Bret Harte
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Autobiography, Writing, Lectures or lecturing, Humorists
- Locales: California, Connecticut, New York, Italy, New Hampshire, Missouri, Mississippi River
Form and Content
In The Autobiography of Mark Twain, the famous American
author Twain presents young readers with biographical information
about his life, insight into how an author thinks and writes, and a
description of a young and optimistic United States. The book uses
anecdotic forms of recollections to document Twain’s life and
shows the influence of a developing nation on this author as well as
his influence on the nation. Editor Charles Neider’s 1959
revised edition of Twain’s autobiography contains seventy-nine
chapters written by Twain during his earlier...
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