Screen LibraryAutobiography of Mark Twain.. Volume 1
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The Mark Twain Library |
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| Item Description: | Autobiography |
| Carrier Form: | 736 p., [16] p. of plates: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780520267190 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520267192 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K837 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/T969A/v.1 |
| Contents: |
"A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library." Includes bibliographical references and index. Vol. I: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiographical dictations, January-March 1906 -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906. This volume presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Eschewing chronology and organization, Twain simply meanders from observation to anecdote and between past and present. There are reminiscences from his youth of landscapes, rural idylls, and Tom Sawyeresque japes; acid-etched profiles of friends and enemies, from his "fiendish" Florentine landlady to the fatuous and "grotesque" Rockefellers; a searing polemic on a 1906 American massacre of Filipino insurgents; a hilarious screed ag |