Mark twain and human nature
Auteur :
Quirk, Tom
Éditeur :
University of Missouri Press
ISBN :
9780826219664
Date de publication :
7 nov. 2011
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
513 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.