A Lifetime With Mark Twain

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120810
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Mary Lawton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which was first published in 1925, is a transcription of an informal account by Katy Leary of her thirty years’ service to the household of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), the 19th century American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, who became world-famous for novels such as Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). It was Mark Twain who suggested that the faithful Katy tell the world all she knew about him. Her reminiscences were locked away in her memory until Miss Mary Lawton, who had known Mr. and Mrs. Clemens for many years, persuaded Katy to reveal them. Katy Leary began to talk and, pencil in hand, Miss Lawton recorded while the old servant poured forth the inimitable words in which she related many a chapter as yet unknown to those outside the family circle. A fascinating read.

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Mary Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258830236
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Mary Lawton and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Mary Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir gives the reader an inside, intimate look at life in the Clemens household.

Author : Katy Leary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780827429451
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Katy Leary and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memories of Kate Leary, for thirty years his faithful & devoted servant. Illus.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( 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.

Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753804582
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Mark Twain written by Andrew Jay Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

Author : Laura Skandera Trombley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474941
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( 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.

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ˜Aœ Lifetime with Mark Twain written by Mary Lawton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry L. Katz
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316209397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's America written by Harry L. Katz and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and healed post-Civil War America with his tall tales, witty anecdotes, and humorous but insightful novels and stories. Twain's legacy continues to flourish over 100 years after his death. MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA features spectacular examples of Twain memorabilia and period Americana from the unsurpassed collections of the Library of Congress: rare illustrations, vintage photographs, popular and fine prints, period views, caricatures, cartoons, maps, and more. Excerpts from Twain's writings are framed in a lively narrative by author Harry L. Katz. Covering the years between 1850 and 1910, the book gives readers an intimate view of Twain's many roles in life: Mississippi river boat pilot, California gold prospector, "printer's devil" at a small-town newspaper, muckraking journalist, novelist, public speaker extraordinaire, our first major celebrity author. Through letters, political cartoons, photographs and more, MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA offers an inside look into Twain's life as well as the literary. social, and political life of America during his time.