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Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lystra, Karen
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Last years.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Relations with private secretaries.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Relations with women.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Finance, Personal.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Lyon, Isabel, > 1863-1958.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mark Twain--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
  • How little one may tell.