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05061aam a22005778i 4500 001 37C2B79047CB11E598A1CBA4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240120010212 008 150408s2015 nyu 000 1deng 010 $a 2015010122 020 $a 1476758964 : HRD 020 $a 9781476758961 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3553.U2955 $b T85 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Cullen, Lynn. 245 10 $a Twain's end / $c Lynn Cullen. 263 $a 1510 264 1 $a New York : $b Gallery Books, $c 2015. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the "page-turning tale" (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America's most iconic writer: Mark Twain. 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. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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 nearlyseven 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 ClaraClemens, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Twain, Mark, $d 1835-1910 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Clemens, Clara $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Lyon, Isabel, $d 1863-1958 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Ashcroft, Ralph W., $d 1875-1947 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Sullivan, Annie, $d 1866-1936 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Macy, John Albert, $d 1877-1932 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Triangles (Interpersonal relations) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Romance / Historical. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 16 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012012.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013826.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518020447.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024026.0 952 $l LHPD057 $d 20200124134618.0 $m FIC 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211011855.0 952 $l SWPB124 $d 20190227034211.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006091438.0 952 $l DJPD353 $d 20180717023032.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180131014852.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418111416.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160909010747.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20160520013616.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20151224010959.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20151223010846.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151212010123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37C2B79047CB11E598A1CBA4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search