Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers) (Volume 12)

ISBN: 0520279948

Author: Twain, Mark

Condition: New

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.-New York TimesHis crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewWhen the first volume of Mark Twains 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 humorists life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his lifes 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 Shakespeares plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The Autobiographys 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 Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript, Mark Twains caustic indictment of his putrescent pair of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their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 SmithAssociate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge