The Sagebrush Bohemian Mark Twains Wild Years Nigey Lennon by Nigey Lennon 9780983488422, 0983488428 instant download after payment.

Most people, including literary biographers and other people who should know better, have a persistent image of Mark Twain as a dyspeptic geezer in a white suit, sourly regarding the world from a rocking chair on his New England porch. Not surprisingly, when Nigey Lennon's groundbreaking biography, "The Sagebrush Bohemian", originally presented its startlingly irreverent revelations about Twain's formative years, it aroused a firestorm of controversy. Previous Twain biographers had virtually ignored the pivotal period (1861-1869) during which Samuel Clemens migrated to the Western territory; learned the craft of writing in newspaper offices, saloons, and worse places; visited the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; became a public speaker; adopted (or misappropriated) his famous monicker; and acquired his trademark moustache. Beneath its breezy, eminently readable surface, "The Sagebrush Bohemian" digests acres of primary sources to provide a penetrating, ribald, and hilarious look at the origins of Mark Twain, not to mention the Zeitgeist of the lusty and lawless era that produced him. "[The Sagebrush Bohemian] offers an efficient and lighthearted introduction to the years in which Sam Clemens transformed himself into the writer who made the American language and American irreverence the stuff of literature." — The New York Times Book Review "With great good humor, Lennon recounts Twain's acquisition of a craft lost in his counterparts today...a different look at Samuel Clemens." — Booklist "A delight to read." — San Francisco Review of Books