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Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 3 of 3: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Classic Reprint)
Mark Twain A Biography Vol 3 of 3 The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Classic Reprint Author:Albert Bigelow Paine CCXII THE RETURN OF THE CONQUEROR IT would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and the public generally made over the homecoming of IvIark Twain. He had left America staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage of redemption. At the moment vhen this 1,Iecca was in view a great sorrow had befallen him and stirred ... more »a world-'vvide and soul-deep tide of human sympathy. Then there had followed such ovation as has seldom been conferred upon a private citizen, and now approaching old age, still in the fullness of his mental vigor, he had returned to his native soil with the prestige of these honors upon him and the vast added glory of having made his financial fight single-handed-and won. He was heralded literally as a conquering hero. Every paper in the land had an editorial tclling the story of his debts, his sorrow, and his triumphs. "He had behaved like Valter Scott," says Howells, "as millions rejoiced to know who had not known h
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CONTENTS; MARK TWA(N AT FORTY; HIS FIRST STAGE ApPF:A&A::-ICE; PAGE; 563; evr 569; eVIl; eVIlI; CIX; ex; exT; eXII; HOWELLS, CLEMENS, AND "GEORGE" 572; SUMMER LADORS AT QUARRY FARM ? 577; THE Pt'SLIC ApPEARA!':CE OF " TOM SAWYER" 583; )'IARK TWAIK AND BRET HARTE WRITE A PLAY SST'; A BERML'DA HOLmAY 591; A NEW PLAY AND A NEW TALE 595; eXIII Two DOMESTIC DRAMAS; eXIV THE WHITTIER BIRTHDAY SPEECH; CXV HARTFORD AND BlLLIARDS; CXVI OFF FOR GER:!>tANY; CXVII GERMANY A~n GJ£R)'lAN ; CXVIIl TRA~1PING WITH TWIClIELL; eXIX ITALIAN DAYS; CXX IN MUNICII; CXXI; CXXII; CXXIII; eXXIV; PARIS, E~GLAND, A:-:D Hm[EVARD BOUND; A:-: I~TER['UDE ? ; THE GRA:-:T SPEECH OF 1879 ?; ANOTHER "ATLANTIC" SPEECH; CXXV THE QUIETER THINGS OF HOME; exxvl "A TRAMP ABROAD" ?; CXXVII LETTERS, TALES, A~D PLANS ?; CXXVIIL MARK TWA1~'S ASSENT-~UNDEDNESS; CXXIX; CXXX; FURTHER AFF AIRS AT THE FARM; COPYRIGHT AND OTHER FANCIES ?; V; S99; 603; 61I; 6r6; ? 619; ? 626; 633;« less