I’m almost finished recording Paine’s biography, which I found to be a wonderfully detailed, first-person experience of his life. But I’ve heard that it’s controversial,, for some reason. Could someone point me towards a critical analysis?? Thanks! -j John Greenman 207-974-9911 My Archive.org audio recordings My Audiobooks from Librivox > On Feb 24, 2019, at 7:27 AM, Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Not that I know of, not from the full material now published. > > Charles Neider's edition was an attempt at chronological order, I believe. > > "Neider's most important book, however, was arguably The Autobiography of > Mark Twain (1959), in which he fashioned a chronological structure that was > lacking in the original material and included never-before-published > passages. Certainly the most widely read version of Mark Twain's > autobiographical writings, that book has played a major role in shaping the > public image of Mark Twain the man." > > http://faculty.citadel.edu/leonard/js01.htm > > /DDD > > http://faculty.citadel.edu/leonard/js01.htm > >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:47 AM Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Has anybody created a chronological Twain autobiography from the three >> volumes of his autobiography recently released? One that excludes >> extraneous/supplementary material and only contains actual autobiography? I >> reckon such a work could probably be condensed to the size of one of the >> existing volumes. >> >> -- B. Clay Shannon >> [log in to unmask]