The Bohemians

The Bohemians Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

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Publisher's Synopsis

1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. Ben Tarnoff's elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering western writers would together create a new American literature, unfettered by the heavy European influence that dominated the East.

Book information

ISBN: 9780143126966
Publisher: Penguin Random House Group
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.997309034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 316g
Height: 141mm
Width: 215mm
Spine width: 22mm