The Ordeal of Mark Twain

Author: Van Wyck Brooks

Genre: *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography

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This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother and his wife. (Summary by Wikipedia and Lucretia B)

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01 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 102 - Chapter I - Introductory: Mark Twain's Despair, Part 203 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 104 - Chapter II - The Candidate for Life, Part 205 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 106 - Chapter III - The Gilded Age, Part 207 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 108 - Chapter IV - In the Crucible, Part 209 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 110 - Chapter V - The Candidate for Gentility, Part 211 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 112 - Chapter VI - Everybody's Neighbor, Part 213 - Chapter VII - The Playboy in Letters, Part 114 - Chapter VII - The Playboy in Letters, Part 215 - Chapter VIII - Those Extraordinary Twins, Part 116 - Chapter VIII - Those Extraordinary Twins, Part 217 - Chapter IX - Mark Twain's Humor, Part 118 - Chapter IX - Mark Twain's Humor, Part 219 - Chapter X - Let Somebody Else Begin, Part 120 - Chapter X - Let Somebody Else Begin, Part 221 - Chapter XI - Mustered Out, Part 122 - Chapter XI - Mustered Out, Part 2

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