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He watched over it forty-five days like a tender and ignorant carbuncle-angel, then I started across the country with my family (p. The book has been reviewed worldwide by some of the most prestigious publications as well as some of the most obscure and has been the subject of online blogs. . At other times, reading it feels like eavesdropping on a conversation he is having with himself.

The book is unique in several regards. These early attempts are featured in a section titled "Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations." In January 1906, with the encouragement of his official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, he took up the experiment again -- a rambling, talking, conversational experiment -- discussing whatever came to mind each day, which was often based on news reports and current events.

However, on a deeper level, these novels are also serious works of social criticism. Then there was a most decided and rather unpleasant odor, which proceeded from disinfectants and preservatives and things such as you have to sprinkle on skins in order to discourage the moths -- so it was not altogether a pleasant place, on that account (p. .

ISBN 978-0520267190.

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The following review appeared 21 November 2010 on the Mark Twain Forum.

Reviewed for the Mark Twain Forum by:
Barbara Schmidt

Over the past few weeks the Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 has risen into the top ranks of the best sellers lists of The New York Times and online bookstores such as Amazon and is on its way to becoming one of the most outstanding successes ever published by University of California Press.

He grew up on the shores of the Mississippi River and took his pen name from the way Mississippi steamboat crews measured the river's depth (the cry "Mark twain!" meant the river was at least 12 feet deep and safe to travel). . 189-90).

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 ends with the dictation for March 30, 1906.

This first installment of Twain's autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before."-- "New York Review Of Books" (2/24/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"The bestseller chart is awash with memoirs -- but none offer the extreme reading of the Autobiography of Mark Twain."--Debra Craine "The Times" (10/18/2010 12:00:00 AM)

"This is a book for dipping, not plunging.

To let him tell it, the carbuncle had always been the master of the human race until by God's mercy he became a member of it. Mark Twain used the money from the North American Review publication to build his Stormfield home, which he originally called "Autobiography House."

Reading Autobiography of Mark Twain, in the order Mark Twain intended, provides unprecedented access into the inner workings of his creativity.

It is less academically punctilious but indeed more reader-friendly."-- "Buffalo News" (4/29/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Smith and her companion editors have accomplished a herculean task. 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.

Pp. 760. 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

About the Author

Harriet Elinor Smith is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world's largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer.