I got my copy of volume 3 last week and was thrilled to have it‹and the
Ashcroft-Lyon manuscript‹at my fingertips.  Thanks to everyone at the MTP
for their outstanding scholarship‹a model for all of us, in my view!

Judith


Judith Yaross Lee
Editor, Studies in American Humor <http://studiesinamericanhumor.org/>

Charles E. Zumkehr Professor
& Director of Honors Tutorial Studies
School of  Communication Studies
Lasher Hall
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701





On 10/19/15, 11:48 AM, "Sharon K. Goetz" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>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Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon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
>
>-- 
>Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project
>http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/
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