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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings.
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 gi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520959637 0520959639 0520280733 9780520280731 1322101671 9781322101675 |