My Mark Twain Chapter 4

In which the author recalls the various retreats and rooms Mark Twain claimed for his literary and convivial pursuits, from a lofty billiard-room warmed against the chill to a once luxurious study transformed into a school-room for his children. Through affectionate observation, the narrative reveals Twain's unorthodox literary tastes and style, highlighting his disdain for conventional fiction and theatre, his love of vivid, homespun language, and his fluid, unsequenced manner of writing that eschewed literary artifice for genuine, lively expression.