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The Bohemians : Mark Twain and the San Francisco writers who reinvented American literature
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The Bohemians : Mark Twain and the San Francisco writers who reinvented American literature

by Ben Tarnoff

This historical account examines a circle of writers in 1860s San Francisco who helped characterise a new American literary voice. It explores how the city's unique culture and the Western frontier influenced their work and the development of national literature.

Accession 7686 ISBN 9781594204739 Publisher Penguin
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Twain arrives by stagecoach in San Francisco in 1863 and is fast drunk on champagne, oysters, and the city’s intoxicating energy. Twain and the Bohemians find inspiration in their surroundings: the dark ironies of frontier humour, the extravagant tales told around the campfires, and the youthful irreverence of the new world being formed in the west. -- blurb

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