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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings

Author
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (201 pages).
Additional Creators
Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845-1904, Clemens, Susy, 1872-1896, and Griffin, Benjamin, 1968-
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English.
Contents
Cover; A FAMILY SKETCH AND OTHER PRIVATE WRITINGS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; A Family Sketch; A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It; A Record of the Small Foolishnesses of Susie and "Bay" Clemens (Infants); At the Farm; Quarry Farm Diary; Mark Twain; About the Texts; About the Illustrations; Biographical Directory; Works Cited; Acknowledgments.
Summary
This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write ""A Family Sketch"" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire household. His record of the childrens' sayings-""Small F
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ISBN
9780520959637 (electronic bk.)
0520959639 (electronic bk.)
0520280733
9780520280731
1322101671
9781322101675
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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