Mark Twain in the Company of Women
- ISBN-10
- 0812216199
- ISBN-13
- 9780812216196
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-02
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Laura E. Skandera Trombley
Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995
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