{"product_id":"autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1-the-complete-and-authoritative-edition-volume-10-paperback","title":"Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarriet E. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I've struck it!\" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. \"And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.\" Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his \"Final (and Right) Plan\" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to \"talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment\"--meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be \"dead, and unaware, and indifferent,\" and that he was therefore free to speak his \"whole frank mind.\" The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Editors: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Twain dictated much of this book--now it is a book at last--from a big rumpled bed. Reading it is a bit like climbing in there with him.--Roy Blount, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To say that the editors have done an extremely good job is a little like saying the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel does a good job of keeping the rain off the Pope's head. It is true but it doesn't give even a whiff of the grandeur of the thing.\"--Robert D. Richardson, author of \u003ci\u003eEmerson: The Mind on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Twain, always so blithely ahead of his time, has just outdone himself: he's brought us an Autobiography from beyond the grave: a hundred-year-old relic that yet manages to accomplish something new. It anticipates the Cubism just taking form in Samuel Clemens's last years, by exploding the confines of orderliness, sequence, the dutiful march of this-then-that. In so doing, it gives us not simply Mark Twain's life--that is the prosaic work of biographers--but the ways in which he thought of his life: in all the fragmented recollection, distraction, creation, revision and dreaming that make up the true, divinely jumbled devices we all use to recapture experience and feeling. If this prodigious and prodigal pastiche were a machine, it would be the Paige typesetter--except that it works.\"--Ron Powers, author of \u003ci\u003eMark Twain: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarriet Elinor Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all of Mark Twain's writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 760\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509746426163,"sku":"9780520430884","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UfAtG6APST9780520430884.webp?v=1781738401","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/autobiography-of-mark-twain-volume-1-the-complete-and-authoritative-edition-volume-10-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}