Mark Twain — by Larzer Ziff
Nonfiction
Reviewed by Michael Pastore
In 1908, the 72-year-old Twain met the attractive English author Elinor Glyn. Twain wrote: "... she was a picture! Slender, young, faultlessly formed and incontestably beautiful -- a blonde with blue eyes, the incomparable English complexion and crowned with a glory of red hair of a very peculiar, most rare and quite ravishing tint." The two authors discussed Glyn's notorious 1906 romance novel, Three Weeks. Twain told Glynn that he "quite agreed" with her theme: that in the realm of sexual relations, the laws of Nature should take precedence over the God-given laws of Man. And yet Twain refused to publish, or allow to be published, his true opinion of the book. Publishing his true ideas, he said, would be "unthinkable"; and he explained to Ms. Glyn ...
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Reviewed by Michael Pastore
In 1908, the 72-year-old Twain met the attractive English author Elinor Glyn. Twain wrote: "... she was a picture! Slender, young, faultlessly formed and incontestably beautiful -- a blonde with blue eyes, the incomparable English complexion and crowned with a glory of red hair of a very peculiar, most rare and quite ravishing tint." The two authors discussed Glyn's notorious 1906 romance novel, Three Weeks. Twain told Glynn that he "quite agreed" with her theme: that in the realm of sexual relations, the laws of Nature should take precedence over the God-given laws of Man. And yet Twain refused to publish, or allow to be published, his true opinion of the book. Publishing his true ideas, he said, would be "unthinkable"; and he explained to Ms. Glyn ...
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