Twain's end
Author:
Publisher:
Gallery Books,
Pub. Date:
2015.
Edition:
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language:
English
Description
"In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction." Twain and his daughter, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to their family. Isabel Lyon has gone down in history as the villainess who swindled Twain in his final decade. She never rebutted Twain's claims, never spoke badly of the man she called "The King," and kept her silence until she died in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment in 1958. So how did Lyon go from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain's life to a woman he was determined to destroy? In Twain's End, Lynn Cullen reimagines the tangled relationships between Twain, Lyon, and Ashcroft, as well as the little-known love triangle between Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne's husband, John Macy, which comes to light during their visit to Twain's Connecticut home in 1909. Add to the party a furious Clara Clemens, smarting from her own failed love affair, and carefully-kept veneers shatter. Based on Isabel Lyon's extant diary, Twain's writings and letters, and events in Twain's boyhood that may have altered his ability to love, Twain's End explores this real-life tale of doomed love"--
Subjects
Subjects
Ashcroft, Ralph W
Ashcroft, Ralph W., -- 1875-1947 -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Clemens, Clara
Clemens, Clara -- Fiction
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Romance / Historical
Historical fiction
Lyon, Isabel
Lyon, Isabel, -- 1863-1958 -- Fiction
Macy, John Albert
Macy, John Albert, -- 1877-1932 -- Fiction
Sullivan, Annie
Sullivan, Annie, -- 1866-1936 -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Fiction
Ashcroft, Ralph W., -- 1875-1947 -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Clemens, Clara
Clemens, Clara -- Fiction
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Romance / Historical
Historical fiction
Lyon, Isabel
Lyon, Isabel, -- 1863-1958 -- Fiction
Macy, John Albert
Macy, John Albert, -- 1877-1932 -- Fiction
Sullivan, Annie
Sullivan, Annie, -- 1866-1936 -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9781476758961
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subject_facet | Ashcroft, Ralph W., -- 1875-1947 -- Fiction Biographical fiction Clemens, Clara -- Fiction FICTION / Historical FICTION / Romance / Historical Historical fiction Lyon, Isabel, -- 1863-1958 -- Fiction Macy, John Albert, -- 1877-1932 -- Fiction Sullivan, Annie, -- 1866-1936 -- Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Twain's end | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Twain's end / Lynn Cullen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | Ashcroft, Ralph W Clemens, Clara FICTION / Historical FICTION / Romance / Historical Lyon, Isabel Macy, John Albert Sullivan, Annie Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Twain, Mark |