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Author Lystra, Karen.

Title Dangerous intimacy : the untold story of Mark Twain's final years / Karen Lystra.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  PS1332 .L97 2004    Available  ---
Description xxi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-324) and index.
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.
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Last years.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Last years of a person's life.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Relations with private secretaries.
Relations with private secretaries.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Relations with women.
Relations with women.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Finance, Personal.
Finance, Personal.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958.
Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0520233239 cloth acid-free paper