Böcker av Steve Courtney

"This book is the official guide to the Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and life story. Steve Courtney conducts a journey back to the Gilded Age, when the celebrated author and humorist was known as Mr. Samuel Clemens of Hartford, Connecticut. Readers can venture inside this "bewitching" landmark for an illustrated tour that offers intimate glimpses of the writer, his wife, and their daughters within their Victorian mansion"--

Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain's best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the ""odd couple"" image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds various dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship.