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portada Mark Twain's san Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The Livest Heartiest Community on our Continent" by America's Greatest Writer
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.45 kg.
ISBN13
9781597144896

Mark Twain's san Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The Livest Heartiest Community on our Continent" by America's Greatest Writer

Mark Twain (Author) · Bernard Taper (Illustrated by) · Edward Jump (Illustrated by) · Heyday Books · Paperback

Mark Twain's san Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The Livest Heartiest Community on our Continent" by America's Greatest Writer - Mark Twain

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Synopsis "Mark Twain's san Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The Livest Heartiest Community on our Continent" by America's Greatest Writer"

Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco's Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels--nothing escaped Mark Twain's scrutiny or his acerbic wit. Bernard Taper has gathered together a heady selection of newspaper articles, correspondence, poetry, and short stories that are humorous--sometimes exasperating and controversial--but always engaging. Edward Jump, a contemporary of Twain's, offers through his lively illustrations a visual drum roll to Twain's cantankerous prose. From earthquakes, scandals, and tantalizing bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones," Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, más conocido como Mark Twain, ha pasado a la historia de la literatura gracias al ingenio, humor y picardía que destila su obra. A menudo considerado el Dickens estadounidense, Twain fue periodista, tipógrafo, escritor y, sobre todo, un aventurero incansable. Su sed de aventuras lo llevó en un largo periplo lleno de experiencias: fue aprendiz de piloto, buscó fortuna en las minas de plata, recorrió el mundo dando conferencias y fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la universidad de Oxford. Todo ello lo inspiró para empezar a escribir pequeños cuadernos de viaje que publicaba en la prensa. Se calcula que llegó a escribir más de 500 obras, entre las que destacan _Las aventuras de Huckelberry Finn_ y _Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer_: dos novelas en las que Twain evoca una infancia inocente y feliz, en la que brillan la ilusión y la rebeldía que preceden a la edad adulta. Mark Twain nació durante una de las apariciones del cometa Halley, y predijo que “se marcharía con él”. Efectivamente, el autor nos dejó el 21 de abril de 1910, a la estela de una nueva visita del cometa. ‍
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