Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 1 / Harriet Elinor Smith, editor ; associate editors, Benjamin Griffin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Contributor:

Smith, Harriet Elinor.

Griffin, Benjamin, 1968-

Series:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain papers.

The Mark Twain papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

An Early Attempt

My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It]

The Latest Attempt

The Final (and Right) Plan

Preface. As from the Grave

Here begin the Florentine Dictations

Now comes the New York dictation, beginning January 9, 1906

Appendix: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations

Samuel L. Clemens: A Brief Chronology

Family Biographies

References

Excerpt from Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613521071

9781280116780

1280116781

9780520952447

0520952448

OCLC:

775873220