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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
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    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

    By Mark Twain, Benjamin Griffin and Victor Fischer

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    Mark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain’s career. It captures his authentic and unsuppressed voice, speaking clearly from the grave and brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions.

    The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain’s life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across the contemporary scene. He shares his views on writing and speaking, his preoccupation with money, and his contempt for the politics and politicians of his day. Affectionate and scathing by turns, his intractable curiosity and candor are everywhere on view.

    Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet E. Smith
    Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateOct 5, 2013
    ISBN9780520956513
    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
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    Mark Twain

    Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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    • 4/5
      In many ways, it's like sitting by the fire and listening to your amazing grandfather talk about his amazing life.
    • 4/5
      This is an interesting exercise. Apparently Twain never wanted to write and publish an autobiography as long as he was alive. So because he wrote so many great books and could make some money by writing of his life, he put together some bits that could be interesting. The main issues are the side issues of what do we think of US Grant (Twain thought very highly of him) and Helen Keller, whom he met at a lunch.But there is not enough to make the entire book worthwhile. I have purchased volume 2 and I hope it is better.
    • 1/5
      I tried skipping through this to get to the autobiography. I kept running into an amazingly boring & repetitive account of HOW this was written, who published what before, & why. Never did find the actual autobiography. Finally got frustrated & quit after 1.5 or 2 hours.

      Not what I was hoping for at all. I expected Twain to be interesting. This wasn't, but then it wasn't Twain's writing, just some boring guy talking about Twain's writing. Worse, this is just 1 of 3 volumes. I can't take it.
    • 3/5
      Twain shows his other side: a disenchanted, bitter cynic. There is much that is humorous, but for the most part, this book caused me to take him off the pedestal on which I had placed him. He was, after all, a human being with moods, biases and some cruelty. But what a true American man.
    • 4/5
      If you like Mark Twain's writing then you should like this. I have found it a fun read and picked up some great quotes along the way.
    • 3/5
      Mark Twain is too wonderful a writer for me, a simple reader, to find tedious, but guess what? I found him tedious. An autobiography written this way, in anecdotal spurts, I found strange and often off-putting. Some sections were hilarious (the servant nicknamed "Wuthering Heights", the observation about German compound words), some were heartbreaking (how he did miss his wife after her death and his daughter), and others were petty and mean-spirited. An interesting glimpse into a icon's life, but I won't be reading parts 2 and 3.
    • 4/5
      I love Mark Twain's stories. He has a very engaging way of writing. His autobiography took a bit to get through however. He jumped around from topic to topic (he'd start talking about one thing, mention it reminded him of something else and go off on a tangent). That took some getting used to.

      Seeing the correspondence he had with his contemporaries was really interesting. When he started talking about his daughter Suzy and the biography she had written about him when she was younger, you could feel the love and adoration he had for her.
    • 4/5
      This book was pure Mark Twain. I made me long for childhood summers past, living abroad, and a time I never knew. His wit and sense of humor are completely wonderful. It's really REALLY good.

      I bump it down to four stars for the editors long winded notes and prologue. The work speaks for itself, there's no need to beat it to death before it even begins. There were about 2.5 discs of this. Perhaps it wouldn't have bothered me as much if I'd actually read the book instead of listening to it.
    • 3/5
      This autobiographical collection of writing isn't presented in the most appealing or convenient way for the reader. The counter-intuitive structure Twain uses sets it apart markedly from his fiction, which so easily and consistently engages the reader's interest and steady attention. This reading experience can consequently prove jarring at first and ultimately disappointing to readers who are fans of Twain's other books.

      Once I saw that this collection was somewhat unwieldy according to my personal standards, I gave myself carte blanche to read selections from this out of order and as rigorously or scantily as the subject being discussed warranted for me. To avoid a let down, I advise Twain fans to give this and/or any other type of partial, improvised reading approach a try when engaging with this material. I enjoyed my read of this work quite a bit. Please be advised I read a free copy of this book that I won in a Goodreads giveaway.
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    • 2/5
      I was excited about this book, hoping to read more of the witty humor from Twain. I was one of the first to order it. I am extremely disappointed in the fact that the type is about 6 points with excerpts even smaller (4 pt?). The book is over 700 pages and this is only Vol. 1. This wonderful man would have been better served if the publisher had assigned some editors to edit this massive amount of information about Twain's life. This book is better left to the literary scholars of Twain. Like many my age, I need reading glasses to read and this presents an impossible task. I hope I can return it to Amazon!
    • 4/5
      Brilliant! Twain had good reason to request that the publication of his autobiography wait until 100 years after his death. He speaks with great candor about many of his contemporaries and in doing so, gives us a wonderfully unvarnished view of many historical figures. This is a must read. Also, due to the heft of this massive tome, it might remain useful to the reader as a weapon for home defense.
    • 4/5
      Perhaps I need to take a break from autobiographies -- only one of the last three I read was truly good.Mark Twain wrote the basis for this volume in his late years, with orders given that it was not to be published until a century after his death. This was done to avoid harming those living or their immediate heirs. I think having him "speak from the grave" all these years later was somewhat appealing to him as well.This volume was put together by a group of people compiling not only Twain's final autobiographical manuscript, but content from several other starts, as well as content from other Twain contemporaries. It is not by any means a "cradle to the grave" narrative, and most of it isn't even about Twain himself! It begins with summary of General Grant's final years and financial problems, and often strays to tell the stories of others -- some whose names still resonate in history (including some presidents, such as Cleveland), and some that were completely inconsequential, resembling the reminiscing of a doddering old man. There are moment of revelation and interest. When he was young and penniless, Twain took a riverboat from Cincinnati to New Orleans with the intent of booking passage to the Amazon and becoming a coke dealer. However, he neglected to check and see if there was any shipping from that port which traveled that way (there was not!) so he undertook training to be a riverboat captain instead. There are numerous passages quoted from Twain's daughter's biography of him -- a work in progress when she died at age 24. The deaths of children, his own and others, seemed to have the most emotional impact upon him. That and editors. He hated them with a passion -- recounted in amusing detail a dressing-down he gave to one who dared to presume to know better, and then afterward congratulated himself on his restraint because the "toad-brained fool" simply didn't know any better.Not all of his anecdotes are amusing or even significant, however. The group that published this book has a lot of original source material available on their website, and it seems this volume could have withstood a fair amount more editing, with the outtakes consigned to the web for those who can't get enough. I suppose I'd probably enjoy a biography culled from this source material. Jumping the time line was too much of a distraction. In the final passages. he spoke of Helen Keller (with an epitaph that she would be remembered as one of the great names in History); the Russian Revolution (he thought Teddy Roosevelt set it back centuries or killed it permanently and lamented this in a conversation with Tchaikovsky); and he lambasted US policy and the atrocities committed in the Philippines. But then he spoke of his early years when as a teenager he worked in a small printing house where they were rarely paid in cash, just barter. I'm not sure what Volume 2 will contain, but I would guess more about his childhood, and perhaps more surrounding the creation of some of his greatest works.
    • 5/5
      This was my only chance to own a first edition of Mark Twain. Kidding aside, this was highly entertaining and the rather buckshot-pattern narrative was charming.
    • 5/5
      Twain was a curmudgeon's curmudgeon, an author's author, and certainly one of the finest writers of English prose that the United States has produced. His account of his life is a work worth reading.
    • 2/5
      The material suggests S. Clements might have created the first unofficial social network system to promote himself; always finding ways to tell "his" story regardless if the truth was verifiable; using many modalities to advance his writings, mostly as a speaker. I wish the auto was chronological rather than a display of thoughts as they came to him. I'm only half way through the book, but so far the material up to the "official" auto is more interesting than the auto itself.
    • 5/5
      I'd give it six stars, if possible.
    • 3/5
      I've gotten halfway, and have read as much of this as I'm going to right now. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the material here is first rate Twain (mostly the bits and pieces in the beginning). But then you have long, long deserts of mind-numbingly boring ramblings. I just don't have the energy to sort the wheat from the chaff any more. Maybe after all three volumes come out, someone will do that sorting and produce an abridged edition. Until then, I remain kind of disappointed.
    • 5/5
      "Whenever a man preferred being fed by any other man to starving in independence he ought to be shot."Mark Twain dictated his autobiography with the stated intention that it wouldn't be published for 100 years after his death. Accordingly, the first volume (of three) of the first complete edition just came out about a year ago.Not a chronological autobiography, but more a free association of (mostly humorous) stories, it still somehow manages to add up to an integrated picture of the man. Early on he relates the death of his middle daughter Suzie at the age of 25, and from that point on quotes from a biography of him she had written about ten years earlier. This provides some structure, as he quotes passages and then elaborates on them or tells a story they remind him of, but it also provides a sort of emotional line, regularly reminding us of Twain's family life besides his professional life.It does jump around a lot, ranging from recollections of his boyhood, to his early attempts at making a living, to becoming a successful writer, to his middle age as a family man, to his old age. The effect is a picture of a whole life, even if it is only in snapshots.And of course, Twain is often very funny, sometimes poignant, and uses language beautifully. Definitely worth reading. And Grover Gardner's narration of this audio edition is quite good (though his reading of Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth is even better)---straightforward to let the material speak for itself, rather than over-the-top comedic as most readers tend to interpret Twain. Four and a half stars.
    • 2/5
      I should I find very little nonfiction all that interesting, and biographies and autobiographies are at the bottom of my reading list. I found the print version of Twain's book difficult to get into, so I switched to audio. Twain dictated the autobiography so I thought the audio might be better, and it was. But there were still so many stretches I just wasn't interested in, mostly having to do with Twain's peers. I didn't know who many of the people were and I couldn't get into those parts. But the sections about Twain's family were very interesting and I could have listened to that all day. I'll probably read or listen to each volume as it comes out, because I'm so curious about his life. I'm still fascinated by the idea of an autobiography done in Twain's way of doing it (hopping from the past to current events to whatever he was interested in at the time).
    • 5/5
      Mark Twain had a mouth on him, no doubt about it – and that is why it is still so much fun to read the man’s writing today. But even Twain knew that the world was not quite ready for the unexpurgated version of his thoughts that comprises the first two volumes (a third volume is yet to follow) of his autobiography, so he stipulated that the complete biography was not to be published until 100 years after his death – which occurred on April 21, 1910. For those of us lucky enough to be around for the unveiling of the uncensored version of the manuscripts, it was well worth the wait.Close to half of the material contained in the autobiography has never been published before, and readers have the Mark Twain Project (of the University of California, Berkeley) to thank for making it available now. The previously published material has been published several times in the past, but always in an abridged form guaranteed not to offend. But even the unrestricted version of Twain’s manuscripts is not what readers have come to expect from an autobiography. Rather than tell the story of his life in chronological order, Twain decided early on that he would dictate his thoughts to a stenographer as they occurred to him – regardless of where they might fit into the story of his life. And, because he wanted them published in the order that he dictated them, reading the two books is more like having a conversation with Twain than anything else. It is as if the man were sitting across the room and telling random stories from his life as they cross his mind. And what stories they are! They range all the way from his thoughts on rather trivial newspaper stories that may have caught his eye over breakfast to wonderful remembrances of things that happened in the first decade or two of his life. We learn of the villains in Twain’s world, some of whom personally crippled him with huge financial losses and scams, and others who were simply the villains of their times, men like Jay Gould and Belgium’s King Leopold II. We learn much about his brother, a man full of dreams but without the ability to make any of them come true. And most touchingly, Twain shares his deep love for Susy, the daughter who was snatched from the family so suddenly, by quoting liberally from the biography she wrote about her father. (My own favorite sections of the book deal with Twain’s relationship with the U.S. Grant family and publication of the former president’s memoirs.)Twain, though, never passes up the opportunity for a little personal vengeance. As he often reminds his readers, he is speaking from the grave now, so what does he care about offending anyone? He just wants to set the record straight – at least as he sees that record. So rather unfortunately, the reader will have to wade through what seems like countless pages about the copyright laws of the day and biting commentary about an Italian landlady who drove Twain nuts for several months.Intimidating as the two books may first appear, the author’s charm and rascality make reading them a pleasure that Twain fans will not want to miss.
    • 4/5
      This is a great time travel book, and by the end it is also one of the most heartfelt intimate memoirs I've read. It has an open direct intimate feel to it all through, like reading letters from an unselfconscious old friend. He seems to have written a few pages at a time as stories occurred to him, which makes it a good book for dipping into. I read it as a bedside book, and it always kept me awake a little too long. Stories about his youthful adventures with crazy friends and business partners;his fairly barbaric Tom Sawyer childhood with reflection on his character development as he aged; stories about his absolutely adored wife and 3 daughters; his intense guilt over the death of his baby son; transcribed comments on his personality from his young daughter who clearly took after him; Why I Loved Minstrel Shows (well, it's some insight); his adventures in publishing; his investments; and his final losses. The last piece was written four months before his death.
    • 4/5
      I'd give this 4.5 stars if I could.

      Incredibly humorous and charming, as is natural of Twain. Very many interesting anecdotes about his life and encounters with the figures of his time. Many timeless observations throughout. Also a refreshing format for a biography, he just talks about whatever pleases him at the time. The only problem is for such an enormous book, I was expecting a lot more which was devoted to the actual autobiography. The scraps and notes are still worth looking at, though.
    • 3/5
      This is the great American humorist in his own words; and also in the words of Albert B. Paine. The text includes a biography written by the latter. Twain's contribution consists of a series of stories from his life, without a clear direction, but just sort of roaming around in his life choosing at random. The portraits of himself and others he draws are entertaining, his characteristic wit shining through clearly, but it's a little hard to put together a picture of his life from the format. As a freethinker, I find it interesting the very toned down way in which he addresses his lack of belief, simply through a short vignette about a goose, which never really says anything, but hints at his non-belief in a deity. The biography which follows it is interesting, and fleshes out his life nicely, so you can put his stories into context better, and delivers a very intriguing picture of an adventurous life well suited to Tom Sawyer. The book lost in my opinion by including a long, rambling, and excessively dull essay at the tail end, an essay that is philosophical, and with which I agreed in large part, but which was not compelling and was marred by constant repetitiveness and the excessive use of capital letters. This should have been excised by the editor, but I suspect few people in the modern world are willing to cut the great masters (unless they should use "the n word", as Twain did in Huckleberry Finn. Political correctness wins out over literary history every time). This book also suffered from formatting problems which I suspect are the direct result of being converted to electronic format, and which can be very distracting and at times hard to read.
    • 5/5
      Ok, I have decided to mete out the 5 stars sparingly. The rating wouldn't mean much if it was given to just any old book that I happened to like.This book though, is without a doubt, one of those few that actually deserves more than 5 stars and it is therefore one of my favorite books of all time. Why? Well, I think there are some books that you read and you think, upon closing the last page, "Hmmm, that was a pretty good book", but then if asked about it a few days later you might be hard pressed to remember much if anything about it. Other books you read, they affect you, they touch your life, your heart, your soul, and you are changed, a different person afterwards. I have not read too many of those books. When people are asked to name the books that have changed their lives, I'm always amused at those whose lists are long. My list is short and this one is on the short list. I absolutely fell in love with Mark Twain and his autobiography. It is even more interesting when you realize that Mark Twain never actually wrote an autobiography. What he did write were a grab bag assortment of small books and personal anecdotes, with the intention of someone else compiling it after his death into an autobiography. That is why each version will be slightly different. This is not the version that I read, but Amazon did not have a photo of it, so I chose this one. I was just so taken in by the humanity of Mark Twain, his was an American life to be sure, but it was more than that. He was a living human being,much more than just one of America's, the world's, most beloved authors. He was also a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a friend. He was all of those and more. He lived the ups and downs of life. He lived through more than his fair share of tragedy and yet in the end, he was never beaten by life's circumstances. He stayed true to who he was. He stayed forever and inimitably, Mark Twain. He laughed, he cried, he was happy, and he was sad. In the end he was supremely human, not a perfect human being, and his flaws are readily apparent.This was one of the few books that I have read where I actually had tears streaming down my face when I closed the last page. From his early boyhood, to the many tragedies in his life, all the way up to the end when he lost his daughter and his wife, this book was incredibly poignant. You couldn't help loving this man even more and being sad that we have no equivalent of Mark Twain today. He died himself the following year after his daughter Jean died and the world has been the worse off ever since.
    • 5/5
      Twain arranged for his autobiography to appear after his death – he wanted it to be “fresh and free and unembarrassed as a love letter.” The resulting account is unblinkingly candid, heartbreaking and funny. By the end, I loved Twain. Maybe you will too.
    • 5/5
      While the Autobiography is certainly not Clemens's best or most humorous effort, it is the one work that I consistently return to, year after year. His writing here at the end of his life can be tangential and fractured, yes, but there is a maturity and wisdom that shines through in this book.This is primarily a collection of anecdotes: some hilarious, some heartbreaking, some brilliant, and some dull. But the nonlinear style in which it has been organized allows the reader to skim or skip the not-so-inspired narration. (Although I would recommend that the Autobiography be read in its entirety upon first being taken up.)It is in this book, spanning from the late 19th century to his death, that Samuel Clemens the man is most fully and nakedly revealed.

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