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Mrs. Mark Twain

Author : Martin Naparsteck
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613095
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Mark Twain written by Martin Naparsteck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become the best known American in the world. She befriended the literary elite of America and Europe, traveled the globe, dined with royalty. Yet her life was filled with tragedy. Her son was born prematurely and died at 19 months. Her oldest daughter died of spinal meningitis at 24. Her youngest daughter was an epileptic. Her husband's bad investments drove the family into bankruptcy. Her frail health kept her bedridden for years at a time. Yet through all this, she and her husband shared a family life filled with love and tenderness.

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129312
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain written by Justin Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America’s “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan’s extraordinary biography. With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, and the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer andHuckleberry Finn. As Mr. Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes, and lived the extravagant life that Mark Twain despised. Kaplan effectively portrays the triumphant-tragic man whose achievements and failures, laughter and anger, reflect a crucial generation in our past as well as his own dark, divided, and remarkably contemporary spirit. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brilliantly conveys this towering literary figure who was himself a symbol of the peculiarly American conflict between moral scrutiny and the drive to succeed. Mr. Clemens lived the Gilded Life that Mark Twain despised. The merging and fragmenting of these and other identities, as the biography unfolds, results in a magnificent projection of the whole man; the great comic spirit; and the exuberant, tragic human being, who, his friend William Dean Howells said, was “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”

Mark and Livy

Author : Resa Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113593682X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Mark and Livy written by Resa Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted that she not only edited his work, but also edited his public persona.Until now, little has been known about Livy's crucial place in Twain's life. In Resa Willis's affecting and fascinating biography, we meet a dignified, optimistic women who married young, raised three sons and a daughter, endured myriad health problems and money woes and who faithfully traipsed all over the world with Twain--Africa, Europe, Asia--while battling his moodiness and her frailty.Twain adored her. A hard-drinking dreamer with an insatiable wanderlust, he needed someone to tame him. It was Livy who encouraged him to finish his autobiography even through the last stages of her illness. When she died in 1904, Twain's zest for life and writing was gone. He died six years later. A triumph of the biographer's art, Mark and Livy presents the fullest picture yet of one of the most influential women in American letters.

The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521553841
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain written by Susan K. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations. Working with Langdon's own letters and diaries as well as Twain's, Harris traces the progress of their courtship within the larger context of Victorian American culture, showing how the couple negotiated their relationship through the mediums of literature, material culture, and social and familial dynamics.

Mark and Livy

Author : Resa Willis
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0203503090
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mark and Livy written by Resa Willis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted that she not only edited his work, but also edited his public persona. Until now, little has been known about Livy's crucial place in Twain's life. In Resa Willis's affecting and fascinating biography, we meet a dignified, optimistic woman who married young, raised three sons and a daughter, endured myriad health problems and money woes and who faithfully traipsed all over the world with Twain - Africa, Europe, Asia-while battling his moodiness and her frailty. Twain adored her. A hard-drinking dreamer with an insatiable wanderlust, he needed someone to tame him. It was Livy who encouraged him to finish his autobiography even through the last stages of her illness. When she died in 1904, Twain's zest for life and writing was gone. He died six years later. A triumph of the biographer's art, Mark and Livy presents the fullest picture yet of one of the most influential women in American letters.

Twain's End

Author : Lynn Cullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476758972
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Twain's End written by Lynn Cullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both, wrote a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, and then --with his daughter, Clara Clemens--slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to their family."--Page 4 of cover

Mrs. Mark Twain

Author : Martin Naparsteck
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786472618
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Mark Twain written by Martin Naparsteck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become the best known American in the world. She befriended the literary elite of America and Europe, traveled the globe, dined with royalty. Yet her life was filled with tragedy. Her son was born prematurely and died at 19 months. Her oldest daughter died of spinal meningitis at 24. Her youngest daughter was an epileptic. Her husband's bad investments drove the family into bankruptcy. Her frail health kept her bedridden for years at a time. Yet through all this, she and her husband shared a family life filled with love and tenderness.

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Autobiography written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.

Mark Twain

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847395996
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Ron Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twain's story is epic, comic and tragic. To retrace it all in illuminating detail, Powers draws on the tens of thousands of Twain's letters and on his astonishing journal entries - many of which are quoted here for the first time. Twain left Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats, enjoyed an uproariously drunken newspaper career in the Nevada of the Wild West, and witnessed and joined the extremes of wealth and poverty of New York City and of the Gilded Age. Through it all he observed, borrowed, stole and combined the characters he met into the voice of America's greatest literature, attracting throngs of fans wherever his undying lust for wandering took him. From Twain's wicked satire to his relationships with the likes of Ulysses Grant, this is a brilliantly written story that astounds, amuses and edifies as only a great life can.

Dear Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261348
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dear Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.

River Boy

Author : William Anderson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060284005
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book River Boy written by William Anderson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ste-e-e-eamboat's a-comin'!" Along the banks of the great Mississippi River, a young boy named Samuel Clemens raced to the docks whenever he heard that familiar cry. He dreamed of exploring the world beyond his river town. Little did he know that one day he would become the famous writer Mark Twain, and write about his boyhood adventures along the bustling river waterfront in the classic stories The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Sam's exploits take him from the printing presses of the Hannibal Courier to the decks of the steamboats that travel the mighty Mississippi, and even to the Wild West. Now noted historian William Anderson tells the colorful story of Sam's life as he grows from a mischievous boy into the enterprising author. Dan Andreasen's fresh, vibrant paintings capture the spirit of the storyteller who will live on forever as one of America's literary icons.

"Mark Twain" (Samuel L. Clemens) and "Joan of Arc"

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book "Mark Twain" (Samuel L. Clemens) and "Joan of Arc" written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain's Other Woman

Author : Laura Skandera Trombley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474941
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Other Woman written by Laura Skandera Trombley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, reveals the never-before-read letters and daily journals of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain’s last personal secretary. For six years, Isabel Lyon was responsible for running the aging Man in White’s chaotic household, nursing him through several illnesses and serving as his adoring audience. But after a dramatic breakup of their relationship, Twain ranted in personal letters that she was “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction.” For decades, biographers omitted Isabel from the official Twain history at his decree. But now, the truth of the split is exposed at last in a story that sheds light on a lionized author’s final decade.

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271521
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain’s Book of Animals written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those unaware—as I was until I read this book—that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place." —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save “A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent."—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate "Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't." —Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life

Mark Twain [i.e

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain [i.e written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain's Letters

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Letters written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain's Aquarium

Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334987
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Aquarium written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression. Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. "By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he."