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Autobiography of Mark Twain.: Volume 1 / the complete and authoritative edition / editor: Harriet Elinor Smith ; associate editors: Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick.

By: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Contributor(s): Smith, Harriet Elinor | Griffin, Benjamin, 1968- | Fischer, Victor | Goetz, Sharon K | Myrick, Leslie Diane | Frank, Michael B | Goetz, Sharon K | Myrick, Leslie Diane | Bancroft LibraryMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Mark Twain Papers: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010Description: xix, [738] p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780520267190 (hc.)Uniform titles: Autobiography. Subject(s): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Authors, American -- 19th century -- BiographyDDC classification: B LOC classification: PS1331 | .A2 2010
Contents:
Vol. I: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiographical dictations, January-March 1906 -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906 --
Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-712) and index.
Summary: The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author. This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain's ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2--a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine
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The complete and authoritative edition.

Vol. I: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiographical dictations, January-March 1906 -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906 --

Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-712) and index.

The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author. This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain's ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2--a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine

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