Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour
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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour


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About the Book

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate
Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures
abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and
revived his world-class sense of humor
Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the
nation’s worst investors. “There are two times in a man’s life when he should
not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The
publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting
device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars
back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His
heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. “I have a perfect horror and heartsickness
over it,” she wrote. “I cannot get away from the feeling that business
failure means disgrace.”
But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the
fifty-nine-year-old, bushy-b...

About the Author

Richard Zacks is the best-selling author of Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805, Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, History Laid Bare, and An Underground Education. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, Atlantic, Harper’s, and many other publications....


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780385536448
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Binding: HARDCOVER
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 450
  • Series Title: Trick 'r Treat
  • Sub Title: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0385536445
  • Publisher Date: 19 Apr 2016
  • Depth: 44
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Weight: 794 gr


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