Dangerous Intimacy - The Untold Story Of Mark Twain´s Final Years

Based on Mark Twains uncensored autobiography, Dangerous Intimacy tells the riveting story of the American Icons tumultuous last years. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with noted scholars, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, author of the great American novel, is once again captivating audiences with the magic of his storytelling. Dangerous Intimacy reveals how the famous author enjoyed the attentions of a flirtatious and calculating young secretary, Isabel Lyon, who desperately wanted to marry him. With the help of Twains assistant, an Englishman named Ralph Ashcroft, Lyon exiled Twains daughter Jean, an epileptic, to a sanitarium and nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over the authors household and estate. The narrative is drawn from a book by Karen Lystra and is based on Twains uncensored autobiography published now, one hundred years after his death, in three volumes by the University of California.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 7 Mars, 2011