The Autobiography of Mark Twain

One of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century: The great American writer tells his own story.

Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to be "free...