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Autobiography of Mark Twain /Harriet Elinor Smith, editor ; associate editors, Benjamin Griffin ... [and others.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2010-]Description: 1 online resource (volumes <1>) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520956513
Other title:
  • Mark Twain
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS1331 .A986 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Autobiography of Mark Twain -- Explanatory notes -- Appendixes: Samuel L. Clemens, a brief chronology -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906 -- Previous Publication -- Note on the text -- Word division in this volume -- References -- Index.
Awards:
  • Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010.
Subject: Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.Subject: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 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 --
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"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.

volume 1. Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiography of Mark Twain -- Explanatory notes -- Appendixes: Samuel L. Clemens, a brief chronology -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906 -- Previous Publication -- Note on the text -- Word division in this volume -- References -- Index.

"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 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 --

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Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010.

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