Dangerous Intimacy Elektronische Ressource The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.Description: 342 pISBN: - 0520250001
- 9780520250000
- 818.409
- PS1332.L97 2004eb
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Names; 1. Mark Twain-and Sam's Women; 2. Heartbreak; 3. Rearranging the Household; 4. Looking for Love; 5. A Pact with the Devil; 6. Life in the Sanitarium; 7. Someone to Love Him and Pet Him; 8. A Viper to Her Bosom; 9. Innocence at Home; 10. Stormfield; 11. An American Lear; 12. Illusions of Love; 13. Unraveling; 14. The Exile Returns; 15. Confrontation; 16. A Formidable Adversary; 17. False Exoneration; 18. The Funniest Joke in the World; 19. Melting Marble with Ice; 20. The End of My Autobiography.
Epilogue: How Little One May TellNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Photo Section.
The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were-lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious-and calculating-secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years
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