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100	1		_aTwain, Mark _d(1835-1910)
245	1	0	_aAutobiography of Mark Twain : _bvolume 1 _c/ Harriet Elinor Smith, editor ; associate editors: Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick
260			_aBerkeley, CA _b: University of California Press _c, c2010
300			_a736 p. _b: illus. _c; 26 cm.
490	0		_aThe Mark Twain Papers
500			_aA publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aVol. I: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations, 1870-1905 -- Autobiographical dictations, January-March 1906 -- Family biographies -- Speech at the seventieth birthday dinner, 5 December 1905 -- Speech at the Players, 3 January 1906.
520			_aBefore his death in 1910, Mark Twain left instructions that his autobiography, on which he'd been working by fits and starts, be left unpublished for 100 years. Now, at the century mark, from the army of Twain scholars at the University of California's Mark Twain Project, comes the dazzling first volume of the ultimate, authoritative three-volume Autobiography of Mark Twain. With no fear of reprisals, always in the center of mid-19th-century America's political, social, and cultural life, and acquainted with everyone of note, Twain wrote briskly and both favorably and fiercely on how he felt about people and events. Twain's writing here is electric, alternately moving and hilarious. He couldn't write a ho-hum sentence. Disappointed with other systems of organization, Twain settled on writing on a topic that interested him before switching to another when it so moved him. To read this volume is to be introduced to Twain as if, thrillingly, for the first time. A 58-page introduction, 138 pages of "Preliminary Manuscripts and Dictations," 176 pages of "Explanatory Notes," and a section of "Family Biographies" (all freshly fascinating) round out the volume.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aTwain, Mark _d(1835-1910)
650		4	_aAuthors, American _v--Biography
700	1		_aSmith, Harriet Elinor
700	1		_aGriffin, Benjamin _d, 1968-
700	1		_aFisher, Victor
700	1		_aFrank, Michael B.
700	1		_aGoetz, Sharon K.
700	1		_aMyrick, Leslie Diane
710	2		_aBancroft Library
942			_cMO
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