Autobiography of Mark Twain V1 – Reader′s Edition (Mark Twain Papers) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520272250 ISBN 13: 9780520272255

Publisher: University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Twian's 'Final Plan' has been released in a truly spectacular first volume of his posthumous 'Autobiography'."--Vitali Vitaliev"Engineering & Technology" (02/01/2011)

"This is a book to treasure for all friends of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn."--Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine (12/01/2010)

"Smith and her companion editors have accomplished a herculean task. . . . A more accurately arranged collection than any earlier edition."-- (08/17/2012)

"Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain's autobiography that he had decreed should not appear until 100 years after his death. And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect."-- (09/17/2010)

"This is a book for dipping, not plunging. Read, as Twain might put it, until interest pales, and then jump. It feels like a form of time travel."-- (11/27/2010)

"Twain would approve!"--Bookideas.com (12/29/2010)

"Twain's autobiography, finally available after a century, is a garrulous outpouring--and every word beguiles."--Wall Street Journal (11/13/2010)

"The bestseller chart is awash with memoirs -- but none offer the extreme reading of the Autobiography of Mark Twain."-- (10/18/2010)

"His ''whole frank mind, ' sharp and funny, is seared onto every page. A"-- (11/10/2010)

"Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain's life, and will be rich with rambunctious, uncompromising opinions."--Herald Scotland (07/19/2010)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0520272250
• ISBN 13: 9780520272255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440