Mrs Mark Twain

Author : Martin Naparsteck,Michele Cardulla
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476613093

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Mrs. Mark Twain by Martin Naparsteck,Michele Cardulla Pdf

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.

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521556503

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The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain by Susan K. Harris Pdf

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. Surprisingly, in the process Olivia Langdon reveals herself not as a hypochondriacal hysteric, as many twentieth-century critics have portrayed her, but as a thoughtful intellectual, widely read in literature, history and modern science. Not so surprisingly, Samuel Clemens reveals himself as a critic and a sceptic, lampooning Langdon's physics lessons and her literary heroines. He also shows himself as an astute strategist, carefully manipulating Langdon and her parents. At the same time, Clemens's letters exhibit his own conservatism about women's nature and women's roles, while Langdon's show her carefully choosing from her culture's array of possible role models.

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439129319

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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan Pdf

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.”

Author : Resa Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135936822

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Mark and Livy by Resa Willis Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Skandera Trombley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307593252

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Mark Twain's Other Woman by Laura Skandera Trombley Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523288930

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Mrs. Mcwilliams and the Lightning by Mark Twain Pdf

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it," too. He died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

Author : Albert Bigelow Paine
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230233091

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Mark Twain, a Biography; the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX Abbey, Edw1n A., ii. 643, 1104; iii. 1384. Aberdeen, Lord and Lady, ii. 1005. About Play-Acting, ii. 1067. Adair County, Kentucky, i. 2. Adams, Charles Francis, iii. 1244. Adams, Rev. Fred Winslow, iii. I527- Adams, Theodore, iii. 1472, 1475. Adam's Diary, ii. 962, 1010; iii. 1162, 1225. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, i- 33. 123; ii- 578, 696, 754, 771-775. 793-798. 831, 895, 897, 1032-1033; iii. 1194, 1226, 1263, 1280-1281. Advice to Good Little Girls, i. 238. Agnew, Joy, iii. 1399-1400. Ah Sin, play collaborated with Bret Harte, ii. 587-590, 596. Aix, ii. 921. Albany, ii. 786. Alden, Henry Mills, ii. 917. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, i. 447- 448; at Keeler luncheon, 450; visits Mark Twain, 502; ii. 661, 764; plans subscription book with Howells, i. 503; dinner in Boston with Mark Twain, 529, 536; Mark Twain's joke on, 537-538; compan- ionship with Howells and Mark Twain, ii. 572; in Paris, 642; at Somerset Club, 743; refuses to join in reading tour with Mark Twain, 783; names Players Club, 866; sympathizes with Mark Twain on Mrs. Clemens's death, iii. 1220; at Dublin, N. H., 1237; dedication of house in Portsmouth, N. H., 1455- 1457- Allen, Helen, iii. 1471, 1543- 1545. 1558-1559. 1561. 1569. Allen, Mr. and Mrs., iii. 1560, 563. 1565, 1569. All Sorts and Conditions of Ships, ii. 948. Alma Tadema, Sir Lawrence, iii. 1384. Alta California, i. 292, 304, 309, 311, 317, 321, 341. 348, 350- 351. 359. 361-362, 423. Ament, Joseph P., i. 76, 78. Ament, Rev. Dr., iii. 1128-1130. American Claimant, The, ii. 707, 757. 953; iii- 1226. American News Company, i. 318. American Publishing Company, i- 349-350, 501; ii. 697-725, 765, 1000, 1093. Ampersand, Saranac Lake, iii. "35- Anderson, P. A., ii. 590. Anstey, F., iii. 1253. Answers to...

Author : Lynn Cullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476758978

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Twain's End by Lynn Cullen Pdf

"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

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : New York, Harper
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004730522

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The Love Letters of Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

Letters to Olivia Langdon Clemens, written between 1868 and 1904.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520036703

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The Mark Twain Papers by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520906068

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1 by Mark Twain Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052090608X

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3 by Mark Twain Pdf

"Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having." These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, the book that would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of Mark Twain's Letters captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781427077356

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Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain Pdf

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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817315221

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Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

The great writer's irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection. This volume is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humor, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers (Howells, Gorky, George Bernard Shaw, Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Hawthorne, Dickens, Bret Harte, among others). These interviews are both oral performances in their own right and a new basis for evaluating contemporary responses to Twain's writings. Some of the parameters Gary Scharnhorst has followed in assembling the collection is to omit self-interviews, humorous sketches written by Twain in interview form, interviews judged by Twain scholars to be spurious, purported interviews that contain no direct quotations, and interviews that exist only in versions translated from the English, as there is no way to verify the accuracy of their retranslations back into English. Because the interviews are records of verbal conversations rather than texts written in Twain's hand, Scharnhorst has corrected errors in spelling and regularized punctuation. Four interviews here are new to scholarship; fewer than a fifth have ever been reprinted. Because Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews makes accessible, in one volume, source documents of immeasurable value to understanding one of America's most consequential writers, it will be valued by both academic and public libraries, Twain scholars and enthusiasts, and general readers of humor.

Author : Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476690643

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Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910 by Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick Pdf

Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the "clown prince of American literature" into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a "degenerate literary freak" who wielded a "scurrilous and venomous pen." This volume traces the evolution of Mark Twain's public image between 1891 and his death in 1910. It features hundreds of reviews and other critical notices in magazines and newspapers across the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. The selected samples represent the full range of critical opinion, whether favorable or hostile, about his late writings. Sources reflect geographical differences in Twain's reputation, such as the conflicted responses in the British colonies towards his anti-imperialism and the pious disapproval in the American heartland of his attacks on foreign missions.