TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
AU  - Smith,Harriet Elinor
AU  - Griffin,Benjamin
TI  - Autobiography of Mark Twain /Harriet Elinor Smith, editor ; associate editors, Benjamin Griffin ... [and others
T2  - The Mark Twain papers
SN  - 9780520956513
AV  - PS1331 .A986 2010
PY  - 2010///-]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Twain, Mark,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 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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