The Mark Twain Papers: Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I.. - Smith, Harriet Elinor (ed.).
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away―to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion―to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"―meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary eve...
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2010 Uitgever: University of California Press 736 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520267192 ISBN-13: 9780520267190Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The Mark Twain Project, program of the Bancroft Library. Half-bound in boards with dustwrapper, with 16 photo plates in black-and-white, note on the text, word division in this volume, references, index, 19x26x6,5 cm, some traces of use on dustwra... [Auteur: Smith, Harriet Elinor (ed.)] [Uitgever: University of California Press: Berkeley, 2010] [Titel: The Mark Twain Papers: Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I]
