Autobiography of Mark Twain; The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 Hardcover - 2010
by [Twain, Mark], Smith, Harriet Elinor, Editor
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- Hardcover
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The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone, Twain's uncensored autobiography is available in its entirety and exactly as he left it.
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Details
- Title Autobiography of Mark Twain; The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1
- Author [Twain, Mark], Smith, Harriet Elinor, Editor
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition. First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 760
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 000791
- ISBN 9780520267190 / 0520267192
- Weight 3.93 lbs (1.78 kg)
- Dimensions 10.27 x 7.27 x 2.49 in (26.09 x 18.47 x 6.32 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress subjects Twain, Mark, Authors, American - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009047700
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
"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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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/2010, Page 16
- Books & Culture, 05/01/2011, Page 16
- Choice, 06/01/2011, Page 0
- Christian Century, 05/31/2011, Page 32
- Entertainment Weekly, 11/19/2010, Page 102
- Library Journal, 09/15/2010, Page 74
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/2010, Page 57
- New York Review of Books, 02/24/2011, Page 19
- New York Times Book Review, 12/19/2010, Page 1
- New Yorker (The), 11/29/2010, Page 78
- People Weekly, 11/08/2010, Page 47
- Publishers Weekly, 09/27/2010, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/08/2010, Page 29
