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Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir
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NEW YORK – It's never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists.
Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiography, released
in full upon the centennial of Twain's death, have for the past few days placed
the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. It is outpacing
new works by Ken Follett, John Grisham and Jon Stewart.
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1" comes out Nov. 15 from the
University of California Press, which already has increased the first printing
from 50,000 copies to 75,000, the publisher said Tuesday. The book is a highly
unusual hit, not only because it was written so long ago, but because the actual
text is an assembly of remembrances, commentaries, newspaper clippings and
journal entries. Twain had worked on his memoir for years and never finished it.
Excerpts have appeared over the past several decades, but Twain's strong
opinions on current affairs and other matters were left out, at his request. He
had said that it was best to wait 100 year after his death for the whole book to
be released.
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