Mark Twain's Notebooks

A national treasure, and a cultural and literary icon, Mark Twain was called "the father of American literature" by William Faulkner. His beloved works include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and twenty-six other books. His inimitable prose seamlessly weaves together humor, insight, vivid details, and memorable characters. Along with these published works, Twain, who was also a journalist, produced approximately forty to fifty pocket notebooks and wrote countless letters, essays, travelogues, and lectures in his lifetime (1835-1910).; Mark Twain's Notebooks is the first collection to gather these writings and combine them with dozens of Twain's rarely-seen sketches, doodles, and diagrams, as well as facsimiles of his original journal pages, and essays.; Organized by topics such as science, to literature, to health, family life, and food, and the collection also includes intimate letters, which describe the home he built in Hartford, Connecticut, his travels across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, and his agony over the death of his favorite daughter.; The writing and art is selected by book and publishing veteran Carlo De Vito who provides fascinating commentary and insights into the material throughout the book.