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The first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography (!) is about to be released.
by Will · May 24, 2010
The first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography (!) is about to be released.
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I’m both tremendously excited and a bit apprehensive. The two-volume autobiography edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (which I presume is either one or two of the “three previous books described as “autobiographies”) was a rambling mess, organized (if that’s the word) by
a deliberate system, and the law of the system is that I shall talk about the matter which for the moment interests me, and cast it aside and talk about something else the moment its interest for me is exhausted.
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