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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition (Mark Twain Papers) by Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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> "Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy." > > --From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences. Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography. Review"A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness..." -- __--__ New York Herald Tribune Book Review __"A book filled with richnesses of
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- Author
- Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612754418
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (2,824 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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