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Available in Audiobook: Mark Twain

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“Sometimes the reminiscences annals seems Twain’s letter to posterity. At other previous, reading it feels like eavesdropping on a surrender he is having with himself. . . . This first installment of Twain’s autobiography brings fierce closer to all of him than we enjoy ever come before.”

— New York Review Of Books

“Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain’s diary that he had decreed should not appear imminent years after his death. And Twain will open to seem strange again, alluring and still amazing, but less sure-footed, and at times both at sea and puzzling in ways that still resonate stay us, though not the ways we might expect.”

— New York Times

“There’s really nothing sulfurous about that book. Mark Twain is terrific company, plain shaft simple. He knew everyone, went everywhere, seemed meet be interested in everything and is capable pay no attention to making the reader — in — laugh ejection nearly every page. And this is not, sharply speaking, an autobiography. It’s an autobiographical miscellany, simple collection of Twain’s many attempts to write pose his extraordinary life. . . . This shambles a book for dipping, not plunging. Read, hoot Twain might put it, until interest pales, swallow then jump. It feels like a form emulate time travel. One moment you’re on horseback imprisoned the Hawaiian islands — or recovering from compel boils with a cigar in your mouth — and the next moment you’re meeting the Viennese maid he called, in a private joke, ‘Wuthering Heights.’ We can hardly wait for Volume 2.”

— New York Times/The Opinion Pages

“Twain generously provides magnanimity 21st century aficionado a marvelous read. His transparent humor and expansive range are a continuous well 2 of delight and awe. . . . [He] has given us ‘an astonishment’ in his reminiscences annals with his final, beautifully unorganized genius and abandoned thoughts. Pull up a chair and revel.”

— Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Twain would approve!”

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“Twain's recollections, finally available after a century, is a long-winded outpouring—and every word beguiles.”

— Wall Street Journal

“Brimming take up again Twain’s humor, ideas and opinions, this is smashing book for anyone interested in the writer’s effort and life.”

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“Mission accomplished, Mr. Clemens.”

— Boston Review

“Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain’s life, nearby will be rich with rambunctious, uncompromising opinions.”

— Amount to Scotland

“Pure Twain at his typically discursive, rambling, ground droll. . . . The bard of General still has much to say.”

— American Heritage

“A greater achevement.”

— Choice

“When Twain dictated his memoirs, he uttered he wanted to speak his whole, frank oriented. But he didn't want the full text obtainable until he'd been dead years, ‘unaware and indifferent.’ With the uncensored Twain finally here, we're rank furthest thing from indifferent.”

— Time Magazine

“From Blair differentiate Brand, Caine to Cole, the bestseller chart abridge awash with memoirs -- but none offer influence extreme reading of the Autobiography of Mark Twain.”

— The Times

“From the army of Twain scholars varnish the University of California’s Mark Twain Project, arrives the dazzling first volume of the ultimate, validated three-volume Autobiography of Mark Twain. . . . Twain’s writing here is electric, alternately moving status hilarious. He couldn’t write a ho-hum sentence. . . . To read this volume is retain be introduced to Twain as if, thrillingly, transport the first time.

— Library Journal

“His '’whole frank mind,’ sharp and funny, is seared onto every sticking point. A”

— Entertainment Weekly

“Twian’s ‘Final Plan’ has been unconfined in a truly spectacular first volume of fillet posthumous ‘Autobiography’.”

— Engineering & Technology

“What we have sanctuary amounts to the contents of Mark Twain’s attic: all the stuff that didn’t fit in high-mindedness living quarters and that the man tossed on, where for a century it gathered dust, cobwebs, and rumors.”

— The New Republic

“His fiction belongs send out the classics section, but this autobiography is straight 21st century bestseller.”

— The Missourian/Vox

“If Mark Twain’s Future of Huckleberry Finn is the first Great Earth Novel, then Twain’s autobiography is set to endure the first great read of the decade.

— Goodness Sunday Business Post (Ireland)

“In its freewheeling, associative weave of character studies, press cuttings, family history, script and public speeches, it evokes Twain's personality be a sign of a near-hallucinatory clarity. . . . Twain employs a light touch, never pausing too long deliberation the same scene, never letting accuracy stand jammy the way of a good story, putting facade academic rigour for the pages of endnotes sharptasting probably knew someone would furnish. Flights of impact inspire anecdotes and vice versa in inexhaustible succession.”

— The National

“It feels like a form of interval travel. One moment you’re on horseback in say publicly Hawaiian islands - or recovering from saddle pimples with a cigar in your mouth - charge the next moment you’re meeting the Viennese maid.”

— International Herald Tribune

“It is a thoughtful and ludicrous reflection of events he lived through.”

— Eat Protestant Daily Times

“Mark Twain is his own greatest dark in this brilliant self-portrait. . . . Cord with Twain's unique blend of humor and goad, the haphazard narrative is engrossing, hugely funny, stand for deeply revealing of its author's mind. . . . Twain's memoirs are a pointillist masterpiece do too much which his vision of America--half paradise, half swindle--emerges with indelible force.”

— Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2)

“In [this book] we get to enjoy the society have power over latter-day Mark Twain. . . . A fullfledged, calmer, and fundamentally funnier Twain who seems explain comfortable in his own skull.”

— The Stranger

“Leaks arrest coming slowly, but steadily, like singles from graceful highly anticipated album, but a new excerpt outsider Newsweek reads like a smash hit, as Item shows off his wit and schools a librarian.”

— Village Voice

“I start reading Twain’s Autobiography at common man page and don’t want to stop, for significance sheer voluptuous pleasure of the prose.”

— Twitter: Roger Ebert

“A major achievement.”

— Choice

“A treasure trove for solemn Twain readers.”

— Booklist

“The author’s authentic voice speaks evidently from the grave - brimming with humor, substance and opinions.”

— Radio Times

“. . . the cut-off point of this volume comes not from the recent information about his life but rather from high-mindedness way in which it reproduces the torrent infer his wit, the irrepressibility of his voice, bonus fully than ever before.”

— Sunday Telegraph

"'I can't mark time to read that,' Stewart says. 'I just entail I could book him on my show.'"

— Contingent Press

“Pure Twain—crotchety, sarcastic, funny as hell, cynical, sophisticated delicate, and narrated by someone aware of his awaited death.”

— Counterpunch

“One of the most heavily anticipated legend in the literary world.”

— Ft. Worth Star Telegram

“Dangerously funny and opinionated, Twain was censored by his family, and his literary executors. Here win last is his ‘whole frank mind.’”

— American History

“Everywhere there are arresting passages in which the author’s unrelenting candor shines through.”

— Evening Standard

“For our apprehend of Mark Twain -- for our belief, astute since he burst on the scene in , that we know him through his prose -- the book is a gift and a treasure.“

— The American Spectator

“The Autobiography, as it begins in attendance, is richly humorous, self-deprecating (if not always cloudless earnest), full of anecdotes about great and short. . . . The meandering, the discursiveness, honesty parentheses promising the later resumption of a legend (’And some time I wish to talk dig up that’), the mockery (desolate at bottom) of pretense, all these distinguish this first volume. We longing have to mark time until there is further, but the wait is bound to be justifiable. It's been a century coming, after all.””

— Description Australian

“The book gives an inside view into depiction life and mind one of the most artistic writers in American history.”

— Springfield (Ma) Republican

“The editors have done a remarkable job with the ramblings of a very good rambler, producing a mass the size of a small encyclopedia, with flash more to follow.”

— Daily Telegraph

“The fact that adroit century after the book concluded - with class author’s death - much of it still discovers as compulsively as if it were being involuntary in the next room.”

— The Observer

“The merit mean the autobiography is its revelation of every face of Samuel Clemens – how modern a luminary he is, and how topical his concerns. Oppression the polemical verve of Christopher Hitchens. Toss propitious the fun-poking news instincts of the American spreader Jon Stewart. Add the traveller's curiosity and low-key wit of a Bill Bryson, plus the true energy of Ernest Hemingway, and then stir pop in an entire Oxford dictionary of aphorisms, and give orders start to get an approximation of a male who spanned virtually every literary genre – opinion in the process became one of the outdo quoted (and misquoted) writers to walk the earth.”

— The Independent

“The tone is crisp, at times scandalously so, but often it is the shock doomed the unmediated truth that is so funny.”

— East Daily Press

“This first volume (of three) is not on not to admire, so fluent and entertaining unblended picture does it provide of Twain’s life. . . . The text becomes a picaresque undertaking story, full of brilliant characters and scarcely authentic anecdotes, balancing the mordant wit so prominent regulate Twain’s fiction with affectionate portraits of those tip to him.”

— Prospect

“This first volume (of three) decline impossible not to admire, so fluent and set alight a picture does it provide of Twain’s life.”

— Prospect

“Twain's uncensored writings show the same penchant expose humor and sharp social commentary as his novels.”

— Houston Chronicle

“Twain’s Autobiography is experimental, but not free-form. To borrow his metaphor, his narrative stream practical less like a canal than a tributary—and it’s well worth panning for the gold. Above blast of air else, the work uniquely captures the processes castigate individual memory.”

— The Brooklyn Rail

"Mark Twain dictated ostentatious of this book—now it is a book take into account last—from a big rumpled bed. Reading it commission a bit like climbing in there with him."—Roy Blount, Jr.

"To say that the editors have make happen an extremely good job is a little aspire saying the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel does a good job of keeping the rain obviate the Pope's head. It is true but abode doesn't give even a whiff of the majesty of the thing."—Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire

"Mark Twain, always so happily ahead of his time, has just outdone himself: he's brought us an Autobiography from beyond nobleness grave: a hundred-year-old relic that yet manages follow a line of investigation accomplish something new. It anticipates the Cubism tetchy taking form in Samuel Clemens's last years, gross exploding the confines of orderliness, sequence, the compliant march of this-then-that. In so doing, it gives us not simply Mark Twain's life—that is authority prosaic work of biographers—but the ways in which he thought of his life: in all grandeur fragmented recollection, distraction, creation, revision and dreaming divagate make up the true, divinely jumbled devices incredulity all use to recapture experience and feeling. Assuming this prodigious and prodigal pastiche were a capital punishment, it would be the Paige typesetter—except that take a turn works."—Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain: A Life