Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 3
When the first volume of Mark Twain s uncensored "Autobiography" was published in , it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.
Created from March to December , these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Rooseve Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, "Autobiography of Mark Twain" has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete "Autobiography" emerges as a landmark publication in American literature.
Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smit
Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 3
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The surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in , it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.
Created from March to December , these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The Autobiography’s “Closing Words” movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who d
Autobiography of Mark Twain
3 volumes : 26 cm
Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a letter to a friend. "And I will give it away to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion, to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment", meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year marked the th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone this is Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. It is told over three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and
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Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.
“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times
"A pointillist masterpiece from which his vision of America—half paradise, half swindle—emerges with indelible force.”—Publishers Weekly
“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in , it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life’s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.
Created from March to December , these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; i
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