Mark Twain (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Milton Meltzer
- Time of Work: 1835–1910
- Setting: Missouri, New York, California, and Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Jane Clemens, Horace Bixby, Olivia (Livy) Langdon Clemens, George Washington Cable, Bret Harte, Susy Clemens
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Books, Novelists, Rivers or waterways, Biography, Humorists
- Locales: California, Connecticut, Missouri
Form and Content
Mark Twain: A Writer’s Life tells not only most of Twain’s life story in an engaging way but also something of the saga of the United States’ coming-of-age. In Milton Meltzer’s book, one senses the tenor of the nineteenth and early twentieth century: the push westward, the lawlessness of Western towns, the magic of the Mississippi steam-boat era, and the raw destruction of nature by powerful industrialists that created the “gilded age” for the few and an age of misery for the many. It is the restlessness of Americans that the book...
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