Mark Twain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain stipulated that his complete, uncesnored Autobiography remain unpublished for a century after his death. The eagerly awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's inner world. Like Volume 1, it ranges from his earliest childhood to his final years, when he sat down to record his life story on his own terms.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the "loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean." This recording evokes the historical era with the...