Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

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Overview

The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author.

This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain's ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2--a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520272255
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 03/26/2012
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 440
Sales rank: 921,806
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Harriet Elinor Smith is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all of Mark Twain's writings.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN
An Early Attempt
My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It]
The Latest Attempt
The Final (and Right) Plan
Preface. As from the Grave
The Florentine Dictations
Autobiographical Dictations, January–March 1906

Appendix: Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations
Samuel L. Clemens: A Brief Chronology
Family Biographies
References
Excerpt from Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
Photographs

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Smith and her companion editors have accomplished a herculean task. . . . A more accurately arranged collection than any earlier edition."—American Literary Realism

"Now, common sense, at last. We have, emblazoned big as life on the paperback cover underneath Twain's photo . . . the words 'Reader's Edition.' The very idea of it is a winner. . . . It is less academically punctilious but indeed more reader-friendly."—Buffalo News

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