Jim Zwick accurately lists the different partial publications of the
autobiographical dictations.  What he leaves out is that the Neider and
DeVoto editions do not accept Mark TWain's plan for the autobiography.
Twain insisted that a plan of no plan, or rather a plan of free-association
in which he brings current events up as an entree into the past, would
create a truer autobiography than any carefully crafted chronology.
Neither DeVoto nor Neider respected that approach.  Neider in particular
scavenges from the entire set of dictations in order to create a
chronology. Paine's version sticks to the plan, but publishes a small
fraction of the total, and selectively edits along the way in order to
protect his image of Mark Twain.

This is a long way of saying, beware of the King and the Duke selling
Mark Twain's autobiography.  If you want to see the whole real thing, you'll
have to make the "pilgrimage" to Berkeley.  The Kiskis edited edition, on
the other hand, makes no pretense toward completeness, but at least
prints excerpts that Twain chose, arranged, edited and published.  This
collection, in either the U of Wisconsin Press edition or in the Oxford
Mark Twain edition, is the best alternative to the Berkeley trip.

Gregg Camfield