sophronisba 's review for:

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

4.5

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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Absolutely massive, somewhat exhausting to read. Less interested in Twain's actual literary works than in his long semi-retirement, which he seems to have used to make his daughters miserable and to attach himself to teenage girls who provided the uncritical adulation he craved. I will never forgive him for throwing away his wife's nest egg on a series of get-rich-quick schemes.