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02098aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 3566D6A4B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180905010705 008 180111t20182018enka b 000 0beng d 020 $a 1780239742 020 $a 9781780239743 035 $a (OCoLC)1018460040 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IUL $d IGA $d SILO 050 4 $a PS1331 H39 2018 100 1 $a Hayes, Kevin J., $e author. 245 10 $a Mark Twain / $c Kevin J. Hayes. 264 1 $a London, UK : $b Reaktion Books Ltd, $c 2018. 300 $a 197 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm. 490 1 $a Critical lives (London, England) 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-194). 520 $a "Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born on 30 November 1835 in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Twain freely adapted the incidents of his life and the stories he heard as a youth to embellish his fiction, as well as his travel writing and autobiography. However, this presents a problem to the modern biographer: in accounts of Twain's life, how does one tell what is true and what is just a colourful yarn? In this new account of a gifted, charismatic character, Kevin J. Hayes reviews Twain's life, from his early journalism to his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, from the travelogue Life on the Mississippi to his final work, the sprawling, episodic Mark Twain's Autobiography, and the public-speaking engagements that took him around the world. Synthesizing new information and sifting through the evidence, Mark Twain is a fresh, clear-sighted account of a crucial American writer"--Back cover. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Humorists, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 830 0 $a Critical lives (London, England) 941 $a 2 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20211130012126.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905050114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3566D6A4B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search