Michael J. Kiskis, ed. Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the "North American Review".(Book review)

Nineteenth-Century Prose | June 22, 1992| | Copyright

Michael J. Kiskis, ed. Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the "North American Review" (U of Wisconsin P, 1990), 301 pp., $25.00 cloth; $12.95 paper.

Mark Twain worked on his autobiography by fits and starts from 1870 until just a few months before his death in April of 1910. He amassed over half a million words and created a chaos of fragments. Aggrandizing himself out of habitual insecurity and arrogance, he imagined that in telling his life story he would have things to say too strong for the public to bear. He insisted that his autobiography should ...

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