The Ordeal of Mark Twain

Name: The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Author: Van Wyck Brooks

by Van Wyck Brooks

Literary biography examining tensions in Mark Twain's life between commercial success and artistic integrity

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Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks was a foundational American literary historian and critic whose multivolume Makers and Finders series chronicled American literary culture from the Revolution to the Civil War. America's Coming-of-Age was his manifesto.

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