He has been called 'The Lincoln of Our Literature,' and not less a literary authority than Ernest Hemingway cited Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as the source from which all American literature springs. Now, the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as Mark Twain, is the subject of a new volume in Continuum's acclaimed Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair series.
Written for general readers and students as well as scholars, with a view to presenting the known and, especially, the unknown Twain, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Mark Twain covers all of the works as well as the rambling and often wildly psyche and contradictory life.This book puts the reader right on the Mississippi River with Twain and all his unforgettable characters - Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and many others.
Framed by two appearances of Hailey's Comet, Twain's life takes on a new mythic dimension through these pages: humorist and misanthrope, self-made author and non-believer in 'uneducated' Shakespeare as the author of his plays, inventor and journalist, provincial American and worldly sophisticate, Twain comes alive as perhaps never before in these pages.
As in all the books in the series, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Mark Twain includes 200 rare images, capsule summaries, sidebars, puzzles, maps,and lots more. It is the perfect gift to satisfy the millions of Twainiacs who return to the master's novels and stories again and again, every year.
