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From: John Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Do the three autobiography volumes contain material from
Twain's notebooks?
To: Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>


It depends on what you want.  Divito's book is simply a collection of Mark
Twain writings gathered from various sources (see the full title), not the
Notebooks as we generally think of them. For selections that are published,
look for the volumes from the editors at Berkeley or, for a smaller
collection, see Albert Bigelow Paine's edition, titled *Mark Twain's
Notebook* (as though it is the only one), now 70+ years old.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have read the three volumes of autobiographies; would I find anything
> new=
>  in "Mark Twain's Notebooks" edited by Carlo de Vito?
> BTW, that book suffers from the curse of the seldom-reviewed on amazon; it
> =
> has an average rating of 3 starts, but there are only two reviews: one
> revi=
> ewer gave it the highest (5) and the other the lowest (1). This is
> probably=
>  a case where statistics lie, or at best stretch, things.
> =C2=A0- B. Clay Shannon
>



-- 
John H. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of Language and Literature
Chowan University
Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855



-- 
John H. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of Language and Literature
Chowan University
Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855