The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain

by Susan K. Harris

Book Overview

Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations. Surprisingly, in the process Olivia Langdon reveals herself not as a hypochondriacal hysteric, as many twentieth-century critics have portrayed her, but as a thoughtful intellectual, widely read in literature, history and modern science. Not so surprisingly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521556503
• ISBN13: 9780521556507
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"