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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Ruminations on His Life and Times, in His Own Words, Volume 1
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Mark Twain
John Hay once told Mark Twain that when a man has reached forty years old, he has already done whatever was worth doing in his life and should start writing his autobiography; invariably, whether trying to be truthful or intentionally inventing fictions, the real truth of the man's life will be apparent to the reader. He went on to say that "there is a subtle devilish some
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I enjoyed reading his autobiography, but felt a little cheated - the book was huge and uncomfortable for my little hands - most of it was either extra drafts of works and speeches and hundreds of pages of explanatory notes and introductions. The actual volume 1 of the autobiography was something like 250 pages. Think I will wait for the later volumes until I can just get them without all the padding, maybe they will be less than the $25 I paid for this one - thank goodness it was a present. Foun
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The autobiographical part of the Autobiography part is great, but is only about half the book. And, because I read it as an e-book, a little awkwardly formatted. I think there are more bits in the appendices I want to read, but skipping around in the e-book format is disorienting, to say the least.
So I think I'm done, but am not sure yet.
So I think I'm done, but am not sure yet.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
, better known by his pen name
Mark Twain
, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885), called "the Great American Novel", and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
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Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
