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In this new account of a gifted, charismatic character, Kevin J. Hayes reviews Twain's life, from his early journalism to his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn , and from the travelogue Life on the Mississippi to his final work, the sprawling, episodic Mark Twain's Autobiography Mark Twain is a fresh, clear-sighted account of a crucial American writer.

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The action-packed life of the polymath and First American, Benjamin Franklin.

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Edgar Allan Poe will appeal to all readers interested in biography, literary history, American culture, and modern thought.

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Typee and Omoo , his more ambitious works and the novels and short fiction he wrote during the forty years after the publication of Moby-Dick . Hayes examines Melville's poetry, taking the story through the American Civil War, which inspired his first published collection of verse, Battle-Pieces