Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, Mark Twain Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, Mark Twain Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Author: Mark Twain; Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 24 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2010

Synopsis

Ive struck it! Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. And I will give it awayto you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography. Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his Final (and Right) Plan for telling the story of his life. His innovative notionto talk only about the thing which interests you for the momentmeant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for one hundred years meant that when they came out, he would be dead, and unaware, and indifferent, and that he was therefore free to speak his whole frank mind. The year 2010 marks the one hundredth anniversary of Twains death. In celebration of this important milestone, here, for the first time, is Mark Twains uncensored autobiography, in its entirety, exactly as he left it. This major literary event offers the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twains authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave, as he intended.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on May 06, 2017

5★ I know he played it safe and wouldn't allow his estate to release this until 100 years after his death, but it has missed an audience that would have revelled in his gossip, much of which has lost a lot of its meaning over the years. Clemens became a very important and popular public figure, atten......more

Goodreads review by NOLaBookish on December 02, 2016

Well let me start off by saying I have always disliked Garrison Keillor and now feel certain that it would be reciprocal if say we met at a party. For those of you not aware of why a review about Mark Twain's autobiography starts with a my dislike of Keillor, feel free to check out Keillor's take on......more

Goodreads review by Lubinka on October 27, 2016

I'm saddened to say, I'm glad it's over. This loosely organized collection of rough drafts, unfinished sketches, false starts, essays about other people and dictated notes about random events met with a terrible fate at the hands of the editors, who obviously thought that we'd be just as thrilled to......more

Goodreads review by Megan on July 09, 2014

To tell the truth, I'm not really sure what version of this I read. It was on the kindle I still have on long-term loan from a friend (thanks again, Amy!), and I'm not going to wade through to try to figure out which one exactly it is. I read some of Mark Twain's autobiography. Note: The rest of thi......more

Goodreads review by Jason on November 23, 2010

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) It's funny, I think, how random the process can sometimes be of who we as a culture decide to remember for......more

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