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Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1

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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away? to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) P...

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Main Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Corporate Author: Blackstone Audio, Inc
Other Authors: Hirst, Robert H. (Editor), Gardner, Grover (Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2010.
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Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
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Summary:"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away? to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion? to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"?meant that his thoughts could range freely ...
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Duration: 24:46:05.
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ISBN:9781441778468
1441778462
Author Notes:Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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