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Mark Twain-uncensored
Well, it has only taken a century but it is finally going to happen, Mark Twain’s Autobiography is going to be published, the uncensored version that is. Twain expected that it would take this long before people could deal with an unexpurgated version. I can’t wait to read it. It will be published in three volumes by the University of California Press.
Twain wasn’t fond of reviewers. According to the New York Times Twain opined: “Critics, though, are another story. “I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value,” Twain writes. “However, let it go,” he adds. “It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.”
And it will have lots of Twain’s unique brand of humor, too: “As aggrieved as he sometimes appears in the autobiography, the reliable funnyman is in evidence too. Twain recalls being invited to an official White House dinner and being warned by his wife, Olivia, who stayed at home, not to wear his winter galoshes. At the White House, he sought out the first lady, Frances Cleveland, and got her to sign a card on which was written “He didn’t.”
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By A Witness
July 15, 2010 2:39 PM | Link to this
Twain begat Mickunas, in a literary sense, and we are grateful for both.
By A Witness
July 15, 2010 2:38 PM | Link to this
Twain begat Mickunas in a literary sense, and we are grateful for both.
By Mark from St Paul
July 12, 2010 12:58 AM | Link to this
Most of volume one has already been published in one place or another, but I guess volumes two and three will blow people away. Twain had very strong feelings about U.S. and European colonial policies.
By Key West ex patriate
July 11, 2010 10:38 AM | Link to this
Heard about this one being on the way. Thanks for the heads up Vick. Will be looking for it come fall.
By Max
July 11, 2010 9:16 AM | Link to this
I agree, Vick…I’ll pick up this one as well. I share Twain’s dislike for ‘reviewers’ present company excepted….Twain was ahead of his time, or, perhaps, just spoke of the people and his times when ‘proper people’ didn’t. It will be interesting to pick through the differences between Twain and Clemens….