By Mark Twain
whilst the 1st quantity of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was once released in 2010, it used to be hailed as a necessary addition to the shelf of his works and an important rfile for our figuring out of the good humorist’s existence and instances. This 3rd and ultimate quantity crowns and completes his life’s paintings. Like its spouse volumes, it chronicles Twain's internal and outer lifestyles via a chain of day-by-day dictations that cross anywhere his fancy leads.
made from March 1907 to December 1909, those dictations current Mark Twain on the finish of his existence: receiving an honorary measure from Oxford college; railing opposed to Theodore Roosevelt; founding various golf equipment; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous concerning the authorship of Shakespeare’s performs; enjoyable in Bermuda; gazing (and making an investment in) new applied sciences. The Autobiography’s Closing phrases” movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. additionally integrated during this quantity is the formerly unpublished Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,” Mark Twain’s caustic indictment of his putrescent pair” of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his condo in the course of their residency.
Fitfully released in fragments at durations in the course of the 20th century, Autobiography of Mark Twain has now been significantly reconstructed and made to be had because it was once meant to be learn. totally annotated by way of the editors of the Mark Twain venture, the whole Autobiography emerges as a landmark e-book in American literature.
Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith
affiliate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon okay. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge
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H. E. S. Dictated March 1, 1907 Reminiscences of the Beecher family—Miss Clara Clemens singing in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, a place noted for manufacture of cheap jewelry—Anecdote of the feather-duster man, told to Mr. Clemens by Professor Sloane. Isabella Beecher Hooker is dead. I first made her acquaintance about forty years ago; she and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, were near neighbors of ours in Hartford during eighteen years. I knew all the Beecher brotherhood and sisterhood, I believe.
Ohge, Christopher M. IX. Bancroft Library. X. Title. 48–1992 (R 2002) (Permanence of Paper). Editorial work for this volume has been supported by a generous gift to the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library from the KORET FOUNDATION and by matching and outright grants from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, an independent federal agency. Without that support, this volume could not have been produced. The Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, gratefully acknowledges generous support for editorial work on all volumes of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and for the addition of important new documents to the Mark Twain Papers, from the following: The University of California, Berkeley, Class of 1958 Members of the Mark Twain Luncheon Club The Barkley Fund Phyllis R.
Led by Roger and Jeane Samuelsen, Edward H. Peterson, and Don and Bitsy Kosovac, this extraordinary class has helped to make completion of the Project’s work a distinct possibility. We renew our thanks to each and every member of the Class of 1958 for their generosity. The future of the Mark Twain Project is likewise ensured by the estate of Phyllis R. Bogue and the estate of Peter K. Oppenheim, who have created similar endowments. Central to our recent fundraising efforts has been the Mark Twain Luncheon Club, organized fourteen years ago by Watson M.