{"product_id":"mark-twain-an-issustrated-biography","title":"Mark Twain An Issustrated Biography","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErnest Hemingway called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \"the best book we've ever had. There was nothing before. There's been nothing as good since.\" Critical opinion of this book hasn't dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words. Mark Twain was the most famous American of his day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American writer.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, and Dayton Duncan (authors of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJazz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLewis and Clark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBaseball\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) comes this audio companion to the PBS film of the same name. It pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely Twain's justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries and letters. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens' boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker - when he adopted the sobriquet \"Mark Twain.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwain believed that \"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.\" This paradox fueled his hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this audio provides a full and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44970908614956,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/mark-twain-an-issustrated-biography","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}