Mark Twain's America

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

DeVoto calls his work an essay in the correction of ideas. After the official biography of Mark Twain had been written by Albert Paine, DeVoto believed there was still more to be said about the works of the great American writer and humorist. He dedicates himself here to a study of the works of Twain, not the man or his life, but to how and why these works arose from American life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313203688
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/28/1978
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

The historian Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) won a Pulitzer Prize for Across the Wide Missouri. Louis J. Budd is Professor of English Emeritus at Duke University and a foremost Twain scholar.

Editorial Reviews

The famous 1932 work of literary and cultural criticism. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

“One of the most beautiful, deep-seeking books on America that we have . . . An exploration, salty, tingling, astonishingly well-informed, of the frontier backgrounds that fed and explain Mark Twain.”—New York Times

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