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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the ""North American Review(Wisconsin studies in American autobiography)

Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the ""North American Review(Wisconsin studies in American autobiography)


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"I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel." Thus Mark Twain began the first of the twenty-five "Chapters from My Autobiography" published in the North American Review 1906-1907. Those chapters contain a unified account of Twain's life recorded in his own unmistakable voice; in them we read his life's story as he intended it to be read and savored. More than just the story of a literary career, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography is securely anchored in the writer's relation to his family. His memories of his beloved wife Livy and daughter Susy-what they meant to him as a husband, a father, and an artist-constitute a poignant self-portrait. At the same time, this text draws on Twain's immense autobiographical writings for some of his best comic anecdotes, such as those that recall his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada territory, and his notorious Whittier birthday speech. Mark Twain's Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence-ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: "Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true."

About the Author :
Michael J. Kiskis (d. 2011) was the Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature at Elmira College. He was also the co-editor of Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship.

Review :
"The Twain text presented here is practically new when printed in this sequence as a unit. Parts of it are particularly fresh because they have never been reprinted anywhere since their appearance in the North American Review. Furthermore, we get here the better, indeed the best, of Twain's autobiographical dictations."--Louis Budd, Duke University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780299125448
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Chapters from the ""North American Review
  • ISBN-10: 0299125440
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 1990
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Series Title: Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
  • Weight: 333 gr


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