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1 online resource (1 audio file (661 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Andrew Sylas. |
| Summary |
The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings to Clemens' mother and wife. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, Brooks' work "was a psychological study attempting to show that Twain had crippled himself emotionally and curtailed his genius by repressing his natural artistic bent for the sake of his Calvinist upbringing." Also, Brooks says, his literary spirit was sidelined as "... Mark Twain was inducted (with the success of 'Innocents Abroad') into the Gilded Age, launched, in defiance of that instinct which only for a few years was to allow him inner peace, upon the vast welter of a society blind like himself, like him committed to the pursuit of worldly success." And, still more disturbingly, Brooks maintains... |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Sylas, Andrew.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781669312628 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669312623 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14546036 |
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