Definitely a deal impossible to refuse!   Do we know how many volumes are
expected eventually?

Arianne Laidlaw

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Cal Pritner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Barb,
>
> As a dean I used to work for said, aphoristically, "you've sold the suit!"
> I must buy!
>
>  Cal Pritner
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>
> Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of
> our
> people need it sorely on these accounts.
>
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> Mark Twain
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> ________________________________
> From: Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 10:16:01 PM
> Subject: Re: thisismarktwain.com
>
> There really aren't enough superlatives to describe the job that the
> editors of the Mark Twain Project have done with _Autobiography of
> Mark Twain, Vol. 1_ (2010).  At 737 pages, the Amazon price of under
> $20 is a true bargain for a hardcover book of this size and scope.
> Readiing from an advance copy, the first 100 pages alone have provided
> a clear and concise insight into Mark Twain's creative process for the
> autobiography; lengthy previously unpublished material; and a keen
> awareness of how Albert Bigelow Paine and others edited Mark Twain's
> dictation for public presentation.  One brief example regarding a
> quote related to inventor James W. Paige:
>
> Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms, and yet he
> knows perfectly well that if I had him in a steel-trap I would shut
> out all human succor and watch that trap till he died.
> - Mark Twain, A Biography_, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
>
> Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet he
> knows perfectly well that if I had his nuts in a steel-trap I would
> shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died.
> - Autobiography of Mark Twain (University of California Press, 2010)
>
> Other editions of the autobiography will now serve as historical
> curiosities by comparison.
>
> Barb
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-- 
Arianne Laidlaw A '58