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In "Hatching Ruin," Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel L. Clemens's business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyzes how these relationships affected Clemens as a person and an artist, most notably in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The 1880s were a time when Samuel Clemens was more businessman than author. Clemens wanted to be rich. From an early age, he had dreamed of wealth. Suspicious of his previous publisher, Clemens started a publishing company and placed Charles L. Webster, who was married to his niece, at the head of it. He also invested large sums of money with James Paige, who was developing a typ...
Would a sudden death of Papa bring us, his small children, out in the open or would Hitler's terrorist attack begin again? We must protect Papa. How else would we eat? There are so many children lined up against brick walls where blood still runs red. I shudder to think that could be me. Will there be betrayal or will 31528 give me a chance to live?
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