Mark Twain: First Hand Insight Into One of the Greatest Author's of All Time - Including Great Photos! (Timeless Classic Books) - Softcover

Henderson, Archibald; Books, Timeless Classic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453799745 ISBN 13: 9781453799741

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

It is an appreciation originating in the heart of one who loved Mark Twain's works for a generation before he ever met Samuel L. Clemens. It is an interpretation springing from the conviction that Mark Twain was a great American who comprehensively incorporated and realized his own country and his own age as no American has so completely done before him; a supreme humorist who ever wore the panache of youth, gaiety, and bonhomie; a brilliant wit who never dip-ped his darts in the poison of cynicism, misanthropy, or despair; constitutionally a reformer who, heedless of self, boldly struck for the right as he saw it; a philosopher and sociologist who intuitively understood the secret springs of human motive and impulse, and empirically demonstrated that intuition in works which crossed frontiers, survived translation, and went straight to the human, beneath the disguise of the racial; a genius who lived to know and enjoy the happy rewards of his own fame; a great man who saw life steadily and saw it whole. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON. LONDON, August 5, 1910.

About this title

About the Author:

Archibald Henderson (July 17, 1877 - December 6, 1963) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He was born at Salisbury, N. C., was educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B., 1898; Ph.D., 1902), and studied more at Chicago, Cambridge, and Berlin universities, and at the Sorbonne (Paris). After 1899 he taught at the University of North Carolina, becoming professor of pure mathematics in 1908. His publications include: * Lines on the Cubic Surface (1911) * Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit (1911) * Mark Twain (1911) * George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works (1911) * Forerunners of the Republic (1913) * The Life and Times of Richard Henderson (1913) * European Dramatists (1913) * The Changing Drama (1914)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1453799745
• ISBN 13: 9781453799741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94