Mark Twain (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, created some of the most enduring images of place, character, and ethos, that readers identify as particularly American. This text examines the life and work of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel in which the protagonists has been said to incarnate American solitude. Learn more about Twain through an extensive biography, analysis from renowned critics, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The lives of the greatest writers of the world are explored in the new series Bloom’s BioCritiques.