ISBN-13: 9780520272255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 440 str.
ISBN-13: 9780520272255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 440 str.
The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain s works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life s work of America s favorite author.
This Reader s Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain s ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine."