New autobiography of mark twain volume 3

  • This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work.
  • Autobiography of Mark Twain; Volume 3 (Hardcover).
  • This third and final volume of Twain's half-million-word autobiography begins with an amusing reminiscence about a rascally jewelry salesman, dictated in 1907.

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

    February 15, 2016
    With this volume the Autobiography of Mark Twain as he intended it - more or less, see below - is fully published, over a hundred years after his death. Many pieces of it had been published before in very different form, often expurgated, always out of order, in bits and pieces.

    This third volume is the most consistent one if you look for a linear narrative, not necessarily what Twain started out to produce. It follows the last roughly two years of his dictations, which in turn follow this years relatively closely. There is still the odd older anecdote, usually when Twain tries to give context to people he meets.

    Two larger episodes stick out: His visit to England for getting his honorary degree from Oxford, which tends to drag a bit with overblown reverence, almost adoration of the European noble class. An episode with lines upon lines upon lines of boring insubstantial det
  • new autobiography of mark twain volume 3

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    About the Book

    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 di

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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

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    ISBN: 9780520279940

    Published: October 15, 2015

    Publisher: University of California Press

    Trim: 7.00 x 10.00 Inches

    Pages: 792

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    The Complete and Authoritative Edition

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    About the Book

    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 understandi