A Family Memoir (American University Studies Series Xxiv, American Literature)
Contributors: David Ketterer (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: December 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780820416106
Subjects: General; Clark, Charles Heber; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Biography / Autobiography; 1841-1915; 19th century; Authors, American; Biography; Clark, Charles Heber,; Family; Humorists, American; Literary Criticism
Description: Charles Heber Clark (1841-1915) was a Philadelphia journalist/author (and eventually a wealthy businessman) who often wrote under the pseudonym "Max Adeler." A leading figure among the Literary Comedians of the 1870s, his international reputation as a humorist was established by the success of his first book, Out of the Hurly-Burly, in 1874.

Clark's autobiography A Family Memoir - published here for the first time - supplies much needed missing information about his life and career, and is a unique source for those interested in the social, political, and economic history of his era.

In addition to providing an introduction and bibliography of Clark's works (and a secondary bibliography), David Ketterer argues in an appendix that Clark/Adeler's "Professor Baffin's Adventures" of 1880 (reproduced in facsimile) inspired Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.