Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 Paperback - 2012
by Mark Twain; Harriet E. Smith (Editor); Robert Hirst (Editor)
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"Mark 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.
"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 Emerson: The Mind on Fire
"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 Mark Twain: A Life
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- Title Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
- Author Mark Twain; Harriet E. Smith (Editor); Robert Hirst (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California
- Date 2012-03-26
- ISBN 9780520272255 / 0520272250
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.03 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 15.32 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress subjects Biography, Twain, Mark
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009047700
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 04/29/2012, Page 24
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