The American Claimant (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The American ClaimantThe subject did not appeal to Howells - not then, but two or three years later, when Clemens was in one of his playwriting fevers, Howells came down from Boston, and together they revived Colonel Sellers, made him the American claimant, and en joyed a riotously jubilant fortnight together, working out their humors. The play was quite impossible as a dramatic production, though both of them bad faith in it at the moment. They had overdone the Sellers idea, burlesqued him - made him a lunatic, as Howells declared afterward - instead of the gentle, lovable eccentric of his earlier appearance. John T. Raymond, who had acquired fame and fortune in the part of Sellers, refused the claimant play, other actors followed his example, and the manuscript was put aside permanently.It was seven or eight years later - early in 1891 that Clemens, digging about in his mind for book material, remembered the old play. Ever since the publication of A Yankee at King Arthur's Court there had been what was evidently a concerted move ment to induce him to write a novel, with the theories of Henry George as the central idea. He now concluded to undertake such a story, linking this purpose with the old claimant idea, he would make an English nobleman renounce his holdings and set out to seek his fortune, and, of course, fall in with the American who was the true heir to his high estate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.