[PDF] A Lifetime With Mark Twain eBook

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1789120810

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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 :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258830236

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This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

Author : Mary Lawton
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1925
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This memoir gives the reader an inside, intimate look at life in the Clemens household.

Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780753804582

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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 : Katy Leary
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1925
Category :
ISBN : 9780827429451

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The memories of Kate Leary, for thirty years his faithful & devoted servant. Illus.

Author : Laura Skandera Trombley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307474941

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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 : University of Iowa Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587297191

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Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.