Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Karen Lystra
In this reflective volume, breakthrough scholarship revises the biography of Mark Twain and presents important new information and new interpretations about the last decade of his life.
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IN 1895 MARK TWAIN was one of the most famous men in the world.
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"Lystra gives her readers a sense of being participants in Twain's relationships with these interesting people, so sensitive is her reconstruction of their lives. Her book is an extraordinary achievement."--Robert Middlekauff, author of Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies
"Lystra provides fresh archival information on the last years of Jean Clemens, Mark Twain's youngest daughter."--Laura Skandera Trombley, author of Mark Twain in the Company of Women
"Dangerous Intimacy painstakingly unravels the web of ambition, flattery, and deceit that Mark Twain's secretary, Isabel Lyon, wove to estrange him from his daughters and consolidate her own position during his final years. With compassion and sensitivity, Lystra explores the tragedy of Twain's youngest daughter Jean and trains a spotlight on Twain's complicity in her loneliness and isolation. This beautifully-written and meticulously-researched book is important for anyone who cares about Mark Twain."--Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture
"Readers will be gratified, and I believe deeply instructed, by Karen Lystra's sensitive, well-documented, and well-reasoned account of the final years. She has much to teach us about Jean Clemens, Clara Clemens, Isabel Lyon, and not least of all, Mark Twain himself."--Robert H. Hirst, General Editor, Mark Twain Project
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- Title Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
- Author Karen Lystra
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 366
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2006-08-09
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520250000 / 0520250001
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.9 x 0.94 in (22.00 x 14.99 x 2.39 cm)
- Reading level 1260
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 200318999
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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