Congratulations to Ben, Harriet and their team on completing what must have
seemed a truly Herculean labor. Looking forward with delight to the
results.

 -- Pete Salwen

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Sharon K. Goetz <
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> October sees the publication of the third and final volume of
> *Autobiography
> of Mark Twain*, chronicling the author's inner and outer life through a
> series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.
>
> Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark
> Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford
> University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs;
> incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the
> authorship of Shakespeare's plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and
> investing in) new technologies. The *Autobiography*'s "Closing Words"
> movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909.
> Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon
> Manuscript," Mark Twain's caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair" of
> secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency.
>
> Only partially published up to now, the whole *Autobiography of Mark Twain*
> has been critically reconstructed and fully annotated by the editors of the
> Mark Twain Project. At last it is made available as it was intended to be
> read.
>
> The text of all three volumes, with annotations and full critical
> apparatus, is available at marktwainproject.org (no fee). Direct link to
> volume 3: http://bit.ly/automt3
>
> Print and epub are available from University of California Press:
> http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279940
>
>
> Sharon Goetz
>
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