Mr Clemens and Mark Twain Author:Justin Kaplan With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual personae symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, and the author of such classi... more »cs as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived the extravagant life that Mark Twain despised. Set against the richly drawn background of the post Civil War period that Mark Twain dubbed the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is sure to entertain and enlighten both the general readers and scholars alike.« less
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