CLEMENS, Clara. [Samuel L. Clemens].
My Father Mark Twain.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1931.
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First Edition of Clara Clemens' My Father Mark Twain; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
First edition of this memoir by Mark Twain's daughter. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, double ruling and a vignette of Mark Twain stamped in blind to the front panel, frontispiece, illustrated with family photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Accompanied by a bookmark with a quote from the book laid in. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Often referred to as “the father of American literature”, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain as the world now knows him, published a large body of work including several works of both fiction and non-fiction in addition to a vast number of short stories and essays. His best-known works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. 'My Father, Mark Twain' (1931) by Clara Clemens offers a valuable biographical perspective that blends personal memoir with cultural history, providing insight into Samuel Langhorne Clemens as both a private individual and a public literary figure. Written by Twain’s daughter, the text foregrounds domestic life, family relationships, and the emotional rhythms of the Clemens household, thereby complicating the popular image of Twain as a purely satirical and public persona.
My Father Mark Twain.
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