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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings: Volume 5

A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings: Volume 5

Clemens, Livy
Clemens, Susy
Twain, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr, Book 5

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

ISBN10: 0520280733
ISBN13: 9780520280731
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 7 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.27 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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 Foolishnesses--is next, followed by the related manuscript At the Farm. Also included are selections from Livy's 1885 diary and an authoritative edition of Susy's biography of her father, written when she was a teenager. Newly edited from the original manuscripts, this anthology is a unique record of a fascinating family.

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