A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
Written by Mark Twain
Narrated by Garrison Keillor
3.5/5
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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Reviews for A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the skeleton of a story meant for a project that never came to fruition. It was discovered and published in 2001 with an extended foreword and afterword by Roy Blount Jr.The story itself is not terribly interesting on its own, but Blount's commentary (which takes up a full 50% of the book) is entertaining and informative. Peter de Sève's illustrations are fantastic and really sold this book for me.The book is mostly of interest for historical reasons, and it's not my sort of thing (being typically uninterested in this sort of history), but it's certainly good for what it is.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting short story,abt 50 pages.This book was lost from 1910-1945, a legal battle for rights ensued.In 2000 Buffalo & Erie County Public Library acquired the rights to publish this book.Twain has a notable history in Buffalo,NY. The foreward and afterward are interesting on their own.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short novel exhibiting classic Train cynicism.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Twain vents his jealousy of Jules Verne's success with a (for him) fairly conventional tall tale.