Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain's (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity. "Twain's" own introduction says it all: GREETINGS, STRANGER OF THE FUTURE. If you are reading this, it means the written word has survived, that the world of tomorrow still exists, and that for some reason my ramblings are still considered worth reading. My name is Mark Twain, and I write these words to you in the good old days of August "What's that, you say, didn't you die a hundred years ago, you old coot? I hear your memoirs have just been published, right now in , because they had to wait a century after your death, blah blah blah and so on. The truth is I never died, but the same old rumors got exaggerated and then the Great War happened, so people forgot I was still alive. And I've kept alive, due to a magic spell cast upon me by a wizard - but I've promised not to tell that tale until 1, years have passed. I let them do the century book because otherwis
Mark Twain demanded that his autobiography not be published in its entirety until years after his death because he feared that much of it was too incendiary.
Now, exactly a century later, the first authoritative volume has arrived, after decades of painstaking scholarship involving tens of thousands of documents -- and after decades of NEH support. Readers can finally see the unexpurgated version of Twain’s views on Christianity, government, human nature and scores of his contemporaries from Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley to Booker T. Washington and the Rockefellers.
At over copiously annotated pages and a list price of $, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 became a runaway best-seller when it was published in November of
But thanks to funding by NEH and other contributors, anyone can read it for free at the Web site of the Mark Twain Papers & Project, housed at the University of California at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.
Readers expecting a conventional linear chronology will be surprised. Twain struggled for 30 years against the constraints of a cradle-to-grave narrative. By , when he began dictating large portions of the Autobiography, “he had finally l
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Hardcover. Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain's (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity. "Twain's" own introduction says it all: GREETINGS, STRANGER OF THE FUTURE. If you are reading this, it means the written word has survived, that the world of tomorrow still exists, and that for some reason my ramblings are still considered worth reading. My name is Mark Twain, and I write these words to you in the good old days of August "What's that, you say, didn't you die a hundred years ago, you old coot? I hear your memoirs have just been published, right now in , because they had to wait a century after your death, blah blah blah and so on. The truth is I never died, but the same old rumors got exaggerated and then the Great War happened, so people forgot I was still alive. And I've kept alive, due to a magic spell cast upon me by a wizard - but I've promised not to tell that tale until 1, years have passed. I let them do th
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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