Resa Willis

Mark and Livy (eBook, PDF)

The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mark and Livy is the only full-length exploration of the woman behind Mark Twain. It is essential to understanding America's foremost writer and details Livy's unrecognized contributions to Twain's writings.It shows how a hard-living riverboat pilot was tamed by a Victorian housewife.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135936839
• Artikelnr.: 38449164

Autorenporträt

Resa Willis is Professor of English and chair of the English Department at Drury University, in Springfield, Missouri. She has lectured on Twain and Livy in the United States and abroad.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. I feel so frightfully banished 2. A generous free household
3. Quitely and steadily 4. Twenty-two yesterday! Growing old fast! 5. As
happy as a queen 6. The clouds will come 7. I believe my heart prays. 8. I
feel so incompetent. 9. I feel so rich and thankful for you. 10. Show our
babies and our new house 11. So desperately happy 12. We dread changing our
manner of life. 13. Women must be everything. 14. This is my work! 15. I
love you, I idolize you and I miss you. 16. I wish there was no one in this
world troubled for money. 17. Such is life. 18. I cannot afford it! 19.
Sombre days 20. The bondage of debt 21. I cannot find Susy & I cannot find
the light. 22. If I looked into the eyes of a friend I might talk. 23. We
are going to give up our Hartford home. 24. We will save each other in
Florence I think.