Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

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Statement of responsibility: by Mark Twain ; [edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project]

Summary: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away-- to 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 notion-- to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"-- meant 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 The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for one hundred years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank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." This first of three volumes presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave, as he intended

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