Synopses & Reviews
These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years, during which he beat a path across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. His spirited narrative relates a series of triumphs and misadventures and profiles a many-faceted succession of personalities and locales: the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization. Twain finds drollery in every corner of his travels, but the sincerity and humanity of his reminiscences provide a realistic vision of now-vanished worlds.
Synopsis
This autobiographical work covers Mark Twain's scuffling years, during which he beat a path from his home in Missouri across the American West and all the way to the South Atlantic Ocean. Twain traveled by overland stage to Nevada, where he took to silver mining and gained and lost a claim worth millions; worked as a reporter for a Virginia City newspaper; fell upon hard times in San Francisco; ventured off to the Sandwich Islands as newspaper correspondent; and ultimately returned in triumph to California on a lecture tour. His spirited narrative, amply laced with genial humor, presents a kaleidoscopic succession of personalities and locales: the stage-drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and startling traits of Sandwich Island civilization.
Synopsis
These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travels across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. From the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains and the mines and miners of Nevada to the climate and characteristics of San Francisco and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization.
Synopsis
These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travels across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. From the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains and the mines and miners of Nevada to the climate and characteristics of San Francisco and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization.
Synopsis
The humorist reflects on his scuffling years and#151; silver mining in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, down and out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.
About the Author
After the Civil War, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) left his small town to seek work as a riverboat pilot. As Mark Twain, the Missouri native found his place in the world. Author, journalist, lecturer, wit, and sage, Twain created enduring works that have enlightened and amused readers of all ages for generations.