A Historical Guide to Mark Twain

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A Historical Guide to Mark Twain is written by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199729069 (ISBN 10) and 9780199729067 (ISBN 13).

Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.