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100 1  Zacks, Richard,|eauthor. 
245 10 Chasing the last laugh|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic 
       resource]|bMark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-
       world comedy tour /|cRichard Zacks. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c2016. 
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380    Biography|2marcgt 
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500    Electronic book. 
520    "From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of The Pirate 
       Hunter and Island of Vice, a rich and lively account of 
       Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad.  In 1895, at age
       sixty, Mark Twain was dead broke and miserable--his recent
       novels had been critical and commercial failures, and he 
       was bankrupted by his inexplicable decision to run a 
       publishing company.  His wife made him promise to pay 
       every debt back in full, so Twain embarked on an around-
       the-world comedy lecture tour that would take him from the
       dusty small towns of the American West to the faraway 
       lands of India, South Africa, Australia, and beyond.  
       Richard Zacks' rich and entertaining narrative provides a 
       portrait of Twain as complicated, vibrant individual, and 
       showcases the biting wit and skeptical observation that 
       made him one of the greatest of all American writers.  
       Twain remained abroad for five years, a time of struggle 
       and wild experiences -- and ultimately redemption, as he 
       rediscovered his voice as a writer and humorist, and 
       returned, wiser and celebrated. As he said in his famous 
       reply to an article about his demise, "the report of my 
       death is an exaggeration."   Weaving together a trove of 
       sources, including newspaper accounts, correspondence, and
       unpublished material from Berkeley's ongoing Twain Project,
       Zacks chronicles  a chapter of Twain's life as complex as 
       the author himself, full of foolishness and bad choices, 
       but also humor, self-discovery, and triumph"--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cKnopf Doubleday 
       Publishing Group|d2016|nAvailable via World Wide Web. 
600 10 Twain, Mark,|d1835-1910|xTravel. 
650  0 Authors, American|y19th century|vBiography. 
655  0 Electronic books. 
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