Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction

by Michael J. Kiskis

Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction, Kiskis persuasively argues that not only was Mark Twain not, as many believe, "antidomestic," but rather that home and family were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817319158
• ISBN13: 9780817319151
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"