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(0)Benjamin Griffin
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Complete and authoritative ed.
Physical Desc
volumes <1-2> : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "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"...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Complete and authoritative edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 747 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This third and final volume crowns and completes [Twain's] work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition...
Author
Series
Jumping frogs volume 5
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter...