Congratulations to Ben, Harriet and their team on completing what must have seemed a truly Herculean labor. Looking forward with delight to the results. -- Pete Salwen *_________________________________* *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371* On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Sharon K. Goetz < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > October sees the publication of the third and final volume of > *Autobiography > of Mark Twain*, chronicling the author's inner and outer life through a > series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. > > Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark > Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford > University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; > incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the > authorship of Shakespeare's plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and > investing in) new technologies. The *Autobiography*'s "Closing Words" > movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. > Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon > Manuscript," Mark Twain's caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair" of > secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency. > > Only partially published up to now, the whole *Autobiography of Mark Twain* > has been critically reconstructed and fully annotated by the editors of the > Mark Twain Project. At last it is made available as it was intended to be > read. > > The text of all three volumes, with annotations and full critical > apparatus, is available at marktwainproject.org (no fee). Direct link to > volume 3: http://bit.ly/automt3 > > Print and epub are available from University of California Press: > http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279940 > > > Sharon Goetz > > -- > Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project > http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ > http://twitter.com/mtpo >