Volume 1 of 2. In this autobiography, Mark Twain is speaking from the grave, literally. He would not allow the book to be published until after his death, so that he could speak freely, as in a love letter. In the manner in which Twain is so well-known, his autobiography is really not an autobiography at all, but a series of entertaining stories and opinions, dinner table talks, such as he had always delivered in his own home and elsewhere, and with about the same latitude and elaboration. Twain's narrative is not in any sense a mere fairy tale, many of the chapters, especially the earlier ones, are vividly true in their presentation. The things he told of Mrs. Clemens and Susy are marvelously and beautifully true in spirit and aspect, and the story as a whole is amazingly faithful in the character picture it presents of the man himself.
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General Grant, New York, United States, John Malone, San Francisco, Fred Grant, Virginia City, Olive Logan, White House, Colonel Sellers, New Orleans, Standard Oil, Colonel Grant, Civil War, Edwin Booth, General Sickles, John Mackay, New England, Quaker City, Thanksgiving Day, Yung Wing, Doctor Holmes, Horace Greeley, Joe Twichell, John Hay New!
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- Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain in Front Matter
- Civil War (Great Adventures in History) by Raymond Friday Locke on page 147
- The Descent of Man (Great Minds Series) by Charles Darwin on page 146
- Christian Science (The Works Of Mark Twain - 25 Volumes - Author's National Edition) by Samuel L. Clemens on page 205
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain on page 61
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