Autobiography of Mark Twain. Vol. 03
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 747 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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 Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished _Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,_ Mark Twain_s caustic indictment of his _putrescent pair_ of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their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
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
Other Authors:
Griffin, Benjamin, 1968- editor.
Smith, Harriet Elinor, editor.
Fischer, Victor, 1942- editor.
Frank, Michael B., editor.
Gagel, Amanda, editor.
Goetz, Sharon K., editor.
Myrick, Leslie Diane, editor.
Ohge, Christopher, editor.
Bancroft Library.
Griffin, Benjamin, 1968- editor.
Smith, Harriet Elinor, editor.
Fischer, Victor, 1942- editor.
Frank, Michael B., editor.
Gagel, Amanda, editor.
Goetz, Sharon K., editor.
Myrick, Leslie Diane, editor.
Ohge, Christopher, editor.
Bancroft Library.
ISBN:
9780520279940
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Twain, Mark | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Twain, Mark | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-714) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-714) and index.