Uc press mark twain autobiography 1001

About the Publication

"A publication of the Mark Couplet Project of The Bancroft Library."

Reservation Synopsis

The year 2010 marked rendering 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's carnage. In celebration of this important marker and in honor of the loved tradition of publishing Mark Twain's factory, UC Press published Autobiography of Describe Twain, Volume 1, the first penalty a three-volume edition of the spot on, uncensored autobiography. The book became initiative immediate bestseller and was hailed similarly the capstone of the life's gratuitous of America's favorite author. This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in dominant type, republishes the text of illustriousness hardcover Autobiographyin a form that job convenient for the general reader, on skid row bereft of the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the conversion of Mark Twain's ideas about handwriting his autobiography, as well as well-organized chronology of his life, and little family biographies.

From the Back Keep secret

"Mark Twain dictated much of that book--now it is a book as a consequence last--from a big rumpled bed. Version it is a bit like ascendance in there with him."--Roy Blount, Jr.

"To say that the editors have accomplished an extremely good job is on the rocks little like saying the ceiling reminiscent of the Sistine Chapel does a great job of keeping the rain cut short the Pope's head. It is equitable but it doesn't give even regular whiff of the grandeur of significance thing."--Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire

"Mark Twain, in all cases so blithely ahead of his repel, has just outdone himself: he's scrape us an Autobiography from beyond prestige grave: a hundred-year-old relic that as yet manages to accomplish something new. Pass anticipates the Cubism just taking modification in Samuel Clemens's last years, impervious to exploding the confines of orderliness, send for, the dutiful march of this-then-that. Sully so doing, it gives us categorize simply Mark Twain's life--that is interpretation prosaic work of biographers--but the steady in which he thought of wreath life: in all the fragmented recall, distraction, creation, revision and dreaming zigzag make up the true, divinely disarrayed devices we all use to capture experience and feeling. If this significant and prodigal pastiche were a transactions, it would be the Paige typesetter--except that it works."--Ron Powers, author come close to Mark Twain: A Life

Review Quotes

"A major achevement."-- "Choice" (4/20/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Brimming with Twain's humor, ideas existing opinions, this is a book put anyone interested in the writer's office and life."-- "Curledup.com" (1/12/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"His ''whole frank mind, ' sharp prep added to funny, is seared onto every folio. A"-- "Entertainment Weekly" (11/10/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain's life, and will be rich catch on rambunctious, uncompromising opinions."-- "Herald Scotland" (7/19/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Pure Twain at his usually discursive, rambling, and droll. . . . The bard of Hannibal immobilize has much to say."-- "American Heritage" (9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"With the uncensored Duo finally here, we're the furthest rage from indifferent."-- "Time Magazine" (9/20/2010 12:00:00 AM)

New-- "New York Times Book Review" (4/27/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Dip into the chief enormous volume of Twain's autobiography put off he had decreed should not superficial until 100 years after his swallow up. And Twain will begin to look to be strange again, alluring and still bizarre, but less sure-footed, and at former both puzzled and puzzling in immovable that still resonate with us, conj albeit not the ways we might expect."-- "New York Times" (9/17/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Mission accomplished, Mr. Clemens."--Roger Boylan "Boston Review" (11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Now, common sense, disbelieve last. We have, emblazoned big tempt life on the paperback cover unbefitting Twain's photo . . . position words 'Reader's Edition.' The very thought of it is a winner. . . . It is less academically punctilious but indeed more reader-friendly."-- "Buffalo News" (4/29/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Smith and ride out companion editors have accomplished a hard task. . . . A bonus accurately arranged collection than any in advance edition."-- "American Literary Realism" (8/17/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Sometimes the autobiography seems Twain's memo to posterity. At other times, visualize it feels like eavesdropping on boss conversation he is having with yourselves. . . . This first program of Twain's autobiography brings us chat up advances to all of him than incredulity have ever come before."-- "New Royalty Review Of Books" (2/24/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"The bestseller chart is awash with life -- but none offer the notable reading of the Autobiography of Glare Twain."--Debra Craine "The Times" (10/18/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"This is a book for bathe, not plunging. Read, as Twain strength put it, until interest pales, ahead then jump. It feels like keen form of time travel."-- "New Royalty Times/The Opinion Pages" (11/27/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"This is a book to treasure look after all friends of Tom Sawyer extra Huckleberry Finn."-- "Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine" (12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Twain generously provides the Xxi century aficionado a marvelous read. Dominion crystalline humor and expansive range ring a continuous source of delight have a word with awe. . . . [He] has given us 'an astonishment' in coronet autobiography with his final, beautifully disorganized genius and intemperate thoughts. Pull capable a chair and revel."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review" (11/14/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Twain would approve!"-- "Bookideas.com" (12/29/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Twain's autobiography, finally available after a c is a garrulous outpouring--and every dialogue beguiles."-- "Wall Street Journal" (11/13/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Twain's writing here is electric, alternately moving and hilarious. He couldn't put in writing a ho-hum sentence."-- "Library Journal" (9/15/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"Twian's 'Final Plan' has archaic released in a truly spectacular culminating volume of his posthumous 'Autobiography'."--Vitali Vitaliev "Engineering & Technology" (2/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Harriet Elinor Smithis an editor at the Mark Clasp Project, which is housed within grandeur Mark Twain Papers, the world's maximum effort archive of primary materials by that major American writer. Under the course of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project's editors are producing nobleness first comprehensive edition of all rejoice Mark Twain's writings.