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I’m almost finished recording Paine’s biography, which I found to be a wonderfully detailed, first-person experience of his life. But I’ve heard that it’s controversial,, for some reason.
Could someone point me towards a critical analysis??
Thanks!
-j
John Greenman
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> On Feb 24, 2019, at 7:27 AM, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Not that I know of, not from the full material now published.
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> Charles Neider's edition was an attempt at chronological order, I believe.
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> "Neider's most important book, however, was arguably The Autobiography of
> Mark Twain (1959), in which he fashioned a chronological structure that was
> lacking in the original material and included never-before-published
> passages. Certainly the most widely read version of Mark Twain's
> autobiographical writings, that book has played a major role in shaping the
> public image of Mark Twain the man."
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> http://faculty.citadel.edu/leonard/js01.htm
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> /DDD
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> http://faculty.citadel.edu/leonard/js01.htm
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>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:47 AM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Has anybody created a chronological Twain autobiography from the three
>> volumes of his autobiography recently released? One that excludes
>> extraneous/supplementary material and only contains actual autobiography? I
>> reckon such a work could probably be condensed to the size of one of the
>> existing volumes.
>>
>> -- B. Clay Shannon
>> [log in to unmask]
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