Charles Heber Clark, a family memoir : the autobiography of the American humorist "Max Adeler"

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Charles Heber Clark, a family memoir : the autobiography of the American humorist "Max Adeler"

edited with an introduction, notes, appendices, and bibliographies by David Ketterer

(American university studies, Series XXIV, American literature, vol. 15)

Peter Lang, c1995

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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 sucess of his first book, Out of the Hurly-Burly in 1874. Clark's autobiography A Familiy 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.

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