Mark Twain

Twain''s story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain''s letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West,...