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Mark Twain


Blooms Classic Critical Views

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No. of pages 600

Published: 2009

Great for age 12-18 years

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Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the novelist, humorist, journalist, and orator who came to be known as Mark Twain was renowned for his wit, wisdom, and keen social commentary. He remains not only one of the most quoted and widely read American authors, and his life and work continue to generate biographical and critical interest today. This new volume in the ""Bloom's Classic Critical Views"" series presents historical essays from the 19th and early 20th century about this American novelist.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Blooms Classic Critical Views .

There are 600 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2009 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.

 

This book is in the following series:

Blooms Classic Critical Views

This book features the following character:

Mark Twain
A humorist, writer, and social observer, Mark Twain found fame with his travel narratives and his adventure stories of boyhood. He himself found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world. Twain also had a serious streak and decried racism and injustice.