The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Book - 2014
Traces the birth of modern America as reflected in the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Ina Coolbrith, placing their achievements and personal lives against a backdrop of the post-Gold Rush era in California.
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Publisher:
Penguin Group USA 2014
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014
ISBN:
9781594204739
159420473X
159420473X
Branch Call Number:
810.9979 TA
Characteristics:
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Add a CommentInsightful book on Twain and Harte, and their role in developing the first uniquely American literature, breaking away from Old World influences. Captures the character and influence of remote early San Francisco and frontier California, before invasion of the transcontinental rails.