The Adventures of Mark Twain [Boys' Life of Mark Twain]

353 pp. Originally published as Boys' Life of Mark Twain, inspiration for the 1944 film starring Fredric March as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Alexis Smith as Twain's wife Olivia. It was nominated for three Academy Awards. "This life of the beloved American humorist, by his greatest biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, is in itself a dramatic and colorful story. It is the story of one of the world's very great men--the story of Mark Twain, from which one of the truly magnificent biographical films has been made. In this narrative and in teh photoplay the American of today may trace the growth of a great nation as well as the growth of a great man."