Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I

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Authors: Mark Twain In Year : 1924

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I

INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE & PREFACE BY MARK TWAIN
THE TENNESSEE LAND (Written about 1870)
EARLY YEARS IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI (Written in 1877)
THE GRANT DICTATIONS--1885--THE CHICAGO G. A. R. FESTIVAL
GRANT AND THE CHINESE (Dictated in 1885)
A CALL WITH W. D. HOWELLS ON GENERAL GRANT (Dictated in 1885)
ABOUT GENERAL GRANT'S "MEMOIRS" (Dictated in 1885)
GERHARDT AND THE GRANT BUST (Dictated in 1885)
THE REVEREND DOCTOR N---- VISITS GENERAL GRANT (Dictated 1885)
THE MACHINE EPISODE (Written in the closing days of 1890)
CHAPTERS BEGUN IN VIENNA - EARLY DAYS (Written 1897-8)
JANE LAMPTON CLEMENS
PLAYING "BEAR"--HERRINGS--JIM WOLF AND THE CATS (Written about 1898)
MACFARLANE (Written about 1898)
OLD LECTURE DAYS IN BOSTON - Nasby, and others of Redpath's Lecture Bureau (Written in 1898)
RALPH KEELER (Written about 1898)
BEAUTIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (Written in 1898. Vienna)
A VIENNESE PROCESSION (Written Sunday, June 26, 1898. Kaltenleutgeben)
COMMENT ON TAUTOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (Written 1898. Vienna)
PRIVATE HISTORY OF A MS. THAT CAME TO GRIEF (Written in 1900) and THE LETTER and NOTES
CHAPTERS ADDED IN FLORENCE (1904) - AUTHOR'S NOTE
VILLA QUARTO (Florence, January, 1904)
VILLA QUARTO (Continued)
A MEMORY OF JOHN HAY
NOTES ON "INNOCENTS ABROAD" (Florence, April, 1904)
STEVENSON, ALDRICH, ETC. (Florence, April, 1904)
HENRY H. ROGERS (Florence, April, 1904)
HENRY H. ROGERS (Continued) Added in 1909
INTERVAL OF TWO YEARS-January 9, 1906-MR. CLEMENS (to Mr. Paine):
New York, January 10, 1906
New York, January 12, 1906
New York, January 13, 1906
New York, January 15, 1906
MRS MORRIS'S ILLNESS TAKES A SERIOUS TURN - A DISCUSSION IN THE CASE
New York, January 15th (continued) Dictated on January 16th
VETERAN ACTOR DEAD - JOHN MALONE WAS HISTORIAN OF THE PLAYERS' CLUB
ABOUT GENERAL SICKLES - New York (January l6th, continued, dictated Wednesday, January 17th)
New York, Thursday, January 18, 1906
ABOUT DUELING - New York, Friday, January 19, 1906

While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before released. It came 14 years after Twain's death and so, "speaking from the grave", he felt he could be "as frank and free and unembarrassed as a love letter". The autobiographical chapters that he published years earlier in the North American Review, were selected more for their acceptability and potential popularity than for their completely true reflection of his inner thoughts. With the publication of Mark Twain's Autobiography in 1924, the world was introduced to a much more frank and less restrained Twain than had heretofore been seen or heard. This partial Autobiography, in two volumes, consisting of about two-fifths of his known material, was compiled by a personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, who at the time had exclusive access to Twain's papers. - Summary by John Greenman and Wikipedia