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The complete text of the books along with annotations and textual explanations is also available on at http://www.marktwainproject.org.
Prior to the publication by the University of California Press editions, various portions of the Autobiography appeared as follows:
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, about 100,000 words in 25 installments published from September 1906 - December 1907.
MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine in two volumes, about 195,000 words, published by Harper's in 1924.
And despite putting his nephew-in-law in charge of the publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnand keeping the contracts in the family, the nephew cheats Twain out of royalties, spending the money before Twain can reclaim it.
Chapters 53 through 60 are more introspective, as Twain considers how his habitual laziness has resulted in countless unfinished manuscripts.
When I conquered him, at last, I knew I was undisputed master of the field; and now, after more than fifty years, I acknowledge, with a few dry old tears, that I rejoiced without shame.
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In 1847 we were living in a large white house on the corner of Hill and Main Streets — a house that still stands, but isn’t large now, although it hasn’t lost a plank; I saw it a year ago and noticed that shrinkage.
The picture is before me yet, and can never fade.
In due course they talked of the colonial mansion of the Peakes, with its stately columns and its spacious grounds, and by odds and ends I picked up a clearly defined idea of the place.
Dec. Even this great shot did no damage. Whatever Hicks had failed in, I made it a point to succeed in, let the cost be what it might, physically or morally.
I could have stopped him at a moment in his vengeful career by a mere exertion of my will, therefore the poor fellow who has escaped was at no time in danger.”
So I was not in disgrace.
July 26, 1908 -AUTOBIOGRAPHY did not appear this week
Aug. It was the pin-sticking. 7 - photograph copyrighted 1906 by Underwood and Underwood titled "In His D.C.L.
3, 1907 - online from the Library of Congress
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4 - "Ascending the Pyramid" from Innocents Abroad
"Colonel Sellers Feeding His Family on Expectations" from Gilded Age
"Street Cars of Damascus" from Innocents Abroad
Nov. Twain shares an anecdote wherein he steps in to fight a duel on behalf of his editor. see the snake!” and hear him say, “My, how beautiful!” in response to the suggestion that he was observing a splendid sunset; and so on — the whole insane business.
A pair of connected little incidents of that month have served to keep the memory of it green for me all this time; incidents of no consequence, and not worth embalming, yet my memory has preserved them carefully and flung away things of real value to give them space and make them comfortable. This work included passages from the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW as well as a few chapters that Paine had published in HARPER'S MAGAZINE in early 1922.
MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION, edited by Bernard DeVoto, published by Harper and Brothers in 1940.
She cited the Richmond fire and the colonial mansion and said they were quite beyond my capacities. He explained to the house that I could never have heard of that small detail, which differentiated this mansion from all other Virginian mansions and perfectly identified it, therefore the fact stood proven that I had seen it in my vision.
The vision developed, by degrees, and gathered swing, momentum, energy. No collusion could produce that miracle. Hicks saw what he saw, and reported accordingly; I saw more than was visible, and added to it such details as could help.