Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Duncan, Dayton.
2. Burns, Ken, 1953-
3. Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

Description

1. xvi, 269 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 col. map; 26 cm.

Subject

1. Humorists, American > 19th century > Biography
2. Authors, American > 19th century > Biography
3. Journalists > United States > Biography
4. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Contents

1. ch. 1. A boy's paradise -- ch. 2. Life on the Mississippi -- Hannibal's Sam Clemens / Ron Powers -- ch. 3. Roughing it -- ch. 4. Innocents abroad -- ch. 5. The best girl in all the world -- Hartford's Mark Twain / John Boyer -- ch. 6. The gilded age -- ch. 7. Truth -- The six-letter word / Jocelyn Chadwick -- ch. 8. A Connecticut Yankee -- ch. 9. Never quite sane in the night -- ch. 10. Following the Equator -- Aren't we funny animals? : an interview with Hal Holbrook -- ch. 11. Treatment for the damned -- ch. 12. I will have my say -- Out at the edges / Russell Banks -- ch. 13. The most conspicuous person.

Call number

1. JFF 03-1851

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Author

1. Ward, Geoffrey C.

Title

1. Mark Twain / by Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film directed by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan and Geoffrey C. Ward ; with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Susanna Steisel and Pam Tubridy Baucom, and contributions by Russell Banks ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Added author

1. Duncan, Dayton.
2. Burns, Ken, 1953-
3. Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

LCCN

1. 2001033820

ISBN

1. 0375405615 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFF 03-1851