Mark twain 2010 autobiography
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About the Book
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About rendering Author
Harriet Elinor Smith obey an redactor at interpretation Mark Brace Project, which is housed within description Mark Couple Papers, description world's principal archive supporting primary materials by that major Denizen writer. Convince the train of Common Editor Parliamentarian H. Hirst, the Project's editors total producing interpretation first complete edition magnetize all register Mark Twain's writings.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Reminiscent of MA
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Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography
It may seem odd that a literary scholar and biographer such as myself should review a scholarly edition that has been on the New York Times best-seller list for nearly three months. The last time I looked, volume one of Autobiography of Mark Twain (edited by Harriet Elinor Smith of the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley) was holding its own at number five on the list, just ahead of another comedian’s take on the human race, Jon Stewart’s Earth (The Book). Usually, these robust annotated editions are priced around $100 and have a print run of 1,500 or less. This one published by the University of California Press is priced to sell at $34.95, for which the buyer gets 760 pages of relatively small print (at least for a best-seller). And from what I’ve heard, the publisher had originally planned to print only 7,500, but has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies since its issue on November 15, Mark Twain’s 175th birthday. Such books are usually reviewed in scholarly journals at least a year or more after their quiet, almost secret publication. This one has already been reviewed prominently in the New Yorker and the New York Times as well as in newspapers as far awa
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
In predictably entertaining fashion he reveals the sources of some of his most memorable characters and stories and recounts some new ones. He tells of squandering staggering sums of money on ill-advised commercial ventures and of allowing a succession of agents and publishers to rob him. He complains about copyright laws that still rip off writers to this day, and it’s hard not to share his outrage. He has some interesting comments about the 1876 presidential election, which he accuses the Republicans of stealing (and he considered himself a Republican!). He