Cool and interesting.

In my view, Paine was helpful but not reliable. He hung around under
Clara's direction until De Voto took over, and things started moving in the
right direction again.

DDD

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:15 AM John Greenman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> As I approach the end of my recording of Albert Bigelow Paine’s “Mark
> Twain-A Biography”, I’m struck by how true to himself Sam was…right to the
> end…never giving in to fear or suddenly-discovered “faith”.
>
> For those few who haven’t read Paine’s biography, I commend it as a most
> comprehensive, first-person treatise of Sam’s life and works. It doesn’t
> approach the detail and analysis of the Mark Twain Project’s
> “Autobiography” in three volumes, but it’s a LOT more approachable and
> digestible (although I understand there to be some controversial material
> included in Paine’s work…being a NON-academic: I know nowt)
>
> Free recorded copies of ABP’s “Mark Twain- A Biography”:
>
> Volume 1 <https://archive.org/details/marktwain_vol1_1806_librivox>
> https://archive.org/details/marktwain_vol1_1806_librivox
>
> Volume 2 <https://archive.org/details/marktwain_vol2_1811_librivox>
> https://archive.org/details/marktwain_vol 2_1811_librivox
>
> Volume 3….to be announced SOON
>
>
> +++++++++++++
> John Greenman
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>  <
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> +++++++++++++
> "Be good & you will be lonesome."
>                         -Mark Twain
>
> Mark Twain Audiobooks from Librivox <
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> Mark Twain audio recordings at Archive.org <
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