Ebook {Epub PDF} Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years by Karen Lystra

 · "Dangerous Intimacy painstakingly unravels the web of ambition, flattery, and deceit that Mark Twain’s secretary, Isabel Lyon, wove to estrange him from his daughters and consolidate her own position during his final years. With compassion and sensitivity, Lystra explores the tragedy of Twain’s youngest daughter Jean and trains a spotlight on Twain’s complicity in her loneliness and isolation. Karen Lystra's Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years is the most significant study of this period of Twain's life since Hamlin Hill wrote God's Fool in Lystra draws from letters, diaries, and Twain's own body of work known as the Ashcroft-Lyon manuscript to reconstruct the dynamics of the relationships between Twain and his daughters Jean and Clara, his .  · This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were—lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy rel The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression/5.

Subsequent biographies that drew substantially on the document were Karen Lystra's Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (); Laura Skandera-Trombley's Mark Twain's Other Woman (); and Michael Shelden's Mark Twain, Man in White: The Grand Adventures of His Final Years (). Each biographer analyzed the. REVIEW OF KAREN LYSTRA, DANGEROUS INTIMACY REVIEW OF KAREN LYSTRA, DANGEROUS INTIMACY CAMFIELD, GREGG nineteenth-century liter ature K a r e n L y s t r a, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, In this new biographical study, Karen Lystra advances what she describes as "an entirely new picture of Twain's final years" (p. x). Among the principal defects.

Karen Lystra's Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years is the most significant study of this period of Twain's life since Hamlin Hill wrote God's Fool in Lystra draws from letters, diaries, and Twain's own body of work known as the Ashcroft-Lyon manuscript to reconstruct the dynamics of the relationships between Twain and his daughters Jean and Clara, his secretary Isabel Lyon, his biographer Albert Bigelow Paine, and his business manager Ralph Ashcroft. Dangerous Intimacy reveals how Mark Twain, after his wife's death, enjoyed the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious and calculating secretary. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, Lyon exiled Twain's daughter Jean, an epileptic, to a sanitarium and nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's household and estate. Based on the book by Karen Lystra and an unpublished Twain manuscript. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years: Author: Karen Lystra: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: University of California Press, ISBN: