Twain, Travel Books, and Life on the Mississippi
1962; Duke University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2922244
ISSN1527-2117
Autores Tópico(s)American Sports and Literature
ResumoQ F ALL MARK TWAIN S BOOKS, Life on the was, perhaps, the most painfully difficult to write. Initially it had seemed an easy task to expand his Atlantic series Old Times on the Mississippi to book length, but the actual composition was protracted and exasperating. (I will not interest myself in anything connected with this wretched God-damned Twain wrote his business manager when it was completed.') In part the difficulty was in the nature of the task-Old Times on the Mississippi was complete in itself and could not be expanded without blemish. In addition, the composition was exacerbated by a publisher's deadline which Twain could not meet. His five-week trip to the Valley in I882 stimulated his recollections, but not enough to fill the book, and he turned, in something like despair, to secondary sources in order to give his memoir the necessary number of words. Five months after his return from the West, he wrote William Dean Howells:
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