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On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life. Around the World with Mark Twain delights while deepening our understanding of this magnificent personality. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In sum, "Around the World with Mark Twain" is a serious but light-hearted travelogue. By "serious," I mean author Robert Cooper took my heart and put it in Mark Twain's hand while, in Hawaii, Cooper and I trailed along behind old Mr. Clemens as the three of us -- at night -- clambered down to the bottom of a live volcano. There we stood beside a lake of reeking, sulfurous, boiling lava and savored the experience until it came to us that the proper thing to do was to get the hell out of there, which we then did.
If you read "Around the World with Mark Twain," you will do it too, and you will savor the experience.
It comes to me off and on that Mr. Clemens could stroll through a sell-out crowd at Yankee Stadium and drop a different one-liner on every fan in the place. What a guy he must have been. ( )