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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff |
Format: | Hardcover |
| Author: | Mark Twain | Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Language: | English | ISBN: |
9780520279940 |
| EAN: |
9780520279940 |
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| The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain s uncensored “Autobiography” was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist s life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life s work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain’s inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt, founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare s plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The “Autobiography” s Closing Words movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript, Mark Twain s caustic indictment of his putrescent pair of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency. Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, “Autobiography of Mark Twain” has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete “Autobiography” emerges as a landmark publication in American literature. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge” | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| ISBN-10 | 0520279948 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780520279940 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 211708391 |
| Product Key Features | |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Publication Year | 2015 |
| Author | Mark Twain |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 60 Oz |
| Width | 7in. |
| Height | 2.6in. |
| Length | 10in. |
| Additional Product Features | |
| Dewey Edition | 23 |
| Series Volume Number | 12 |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dewey Decimal | 818/.4/0924 B |
| Series | Mark Twain Papers |
| Copyright Date | 2015 |
| Number of Pages | 792 Pages |
| Volume Number | Vol. 3 |
| Lc Classification Number | Ps1331.A2 2015 |
| Publication Date | 2015-10-15 |
| Reviews | “Covering just the last couple of years in Twain’s long life, this is the concluding volume of the masterful University of California edition of his autobiography: unexpurgated, cross-referenced, and richly annotated. . . . The swan song reinforces things well established by its predecessors.” – STARRED REVIEW, “The Abundant Morsels Here Give USA Glimpse Into the Big Human Heart of Our Great American Author.”, “The verdict: admirable, opulent, incredibly thorough, surely a treasure trove beyond price for Twain scholars, endlessly pleasant to paw through for those of us who find Twain hilarious and moving and blunt and inimitable.”, “The concluding volume of the masterful University of California edition of his autobiography: unexpurgated, cross-referenced, and richly annotated. . . . [This volume will be] of considerable interest to all readers of Twain.” – STARRED REVIEW, “Rambling; charming; vitriolic; confessional (“I am fond of pomp and display”); shot through with wit, lyricism and regret. . . . Captivating and invaluable.”, “Sharp and witty here as he is in his fiction. . . . Closes the book on the remarkable life of one of America’s most outstanding literary talents.”, “His deep love for the language, for expression, for telling what is on his mind and in his heart, keeps him talking to us, right up to the very end of the autobiography, when the death of his daughter Jean leads him to close it forever.”, “There was a private Sam Clemens and a public Mark Twain, and both of them can be found in Autobiography of Mark Twain.” |
| Edited by | VICTOR Fischer, Harriet E. Smith, Michael B. Frank, Benjamin Griffin |
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