by Gary Scharnhorst
University of Missouri Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-8262-2241-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8262-7468-7
Library of Congress Classification PS1331.S24 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 818.409

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In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family’s extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this time that he writes some of his darkest, most critical works; among these include Pudd’nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; Following the Equator; No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger; and portions of his Autobiography.
 

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