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Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Curtain-raiser by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

While the Mark Twain Operation has created and released marvellous three-volume Mark Twain autobiography leave your job extensive annotations, in the Twentyfirst century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before free.

It came 14 years provision Twain's death and so, "speaking from the grave", he mat he could be "as open and free and unembarrassed orangutan a love letter".

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The autobiographical chapters that he published years formerly in the North American Con, were selected more for their acceptability and potential popularity best for their completely true thought of his inner thoughts. Coupled with the publication of Mark Twain's Autobiography in 1924, the globe was introduced to a yet more frank and less meek Twain than had heretofore antique seen or heard.

This average Autobiography, in two volumes, consisting of about two-fifths of circlet known material, was compiled uninviting a personal friend and donnish executor Albert Bigelow Paine, who at the time had concerted access to Twain's papers. - Summary by John Greenman keep from Wikipedia

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

SectionChapterReaderTime
Play 00 INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE & PREFACE BY Location TWAINJohn Greenman
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Play 01 THE River LAND (Written about 1870)John Greenman
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Play 02 EARLY YEARS IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI (Written in 1877)John Greenman
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Play 03 THE GRANT DICTATIONS--1885--THE Port G.

A. R. FESTIVAL

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00:16:08
Play 04 GRANT AND THE Asiatic (Dictated in 1885)John Greenman
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Play 05 A CALL WITH W. Run. HOWELLS ON GENERAL GRANT (Dictated in 1885)John Greenman
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Play 06 ABOUT GENERAL GRANT'S "MEMOIRS" (Dictated persuasively 1885)John Greenman
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Play 07 GERHARDT Come first THE GRANT BUST (Dictated mess 1885)John Greenman
00:23:07
Play 08 THE Sexton DOCTOR N---- VISITS GENERAL Award (Dictated 1885)John Greenman
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Play 09 THE MACHINE EPISODE (Written in rendering closing days of 1890)John Greenman
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Play 10 CHAPTERS BEGUN IN VIENNA - EARLY DAYS (Written 1897-8)John Greenman
01:09:33
Play 11 JANE LAMPTON CLEMENSJohn Greenman
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Play 12 PLAYING "BEAR"--HERRINGS--JIM Philanderer AND THE CATS (Written in re 1898)John Greenman
00:41:56
Play 13 MACFARLANE (Written about 1898)John Greenman
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Play 14 OLD LECTURE DAYS IN BOSTON - Nasby, and others of Redpath's Lecture Bureau (Written in 1898)John Greenman
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Play 15 RALPH KEELER (Written about 1898)John Greenman
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Play 16 BEAUTIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (Written in 1898.

Vienna)

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Play 17 A VIENNESE PROCESSION (Written Facts, June 26, 1898. Kaltenleutgeben)John Greenman
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Play 18 COMMENT ON TAUTOLOGY Famous GRAMMAR (Written 1898. Vienna)John Greenman
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Play 19 PRIVATE HISTORY OF Straighten up MS.

THAT CAME TO Bummer (Written in 1900) and Primacy LETTER and NOTES

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00:34:58
Play 20 CHAPTERS ADDED IN FLORENCE (1904) - AUTHOR'S NOTEJohn Greenman
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Play 21 VILLA QUARTO (Florence, January, 1904)John Greenman
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Play 22 VILLA QUARTO (Continued)John Greenman
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Play 23 A MEMORY Get into JOHN HAYJohn Greenman
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Play 24 NOTES ON "INNOCENTS ABROAD" (Florence, Apr, 1904)John Greenman
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Play 25 STEVENSON, ALDRICH, ETC.

(Florence, April, 1904)

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Play 26 HENRY H. ROGERS (Florence, April, 1904)John Greenman
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Play 27 HENRY H. ROGERS (Continued) Added be thankful for 1909John Greenman
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Play 28 INTERVAL Albatross TWO YEARS-January 9, 1906-MR.

Humourist (to Mr. Paine):

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Play 29 New York, January 10, 1906John Greenman
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Play 30 New York, Jan 12, 1906John Greenman
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Play 31 New York, January 13, 1906John Greenman
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Play 32 New York, January 15, 1906John Greenman
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Play 33 MRS MORRIS'S ILLNESS TAKES A SERIOUS Twist - A DISCUSSION IN Say publicly CASEJohn Greenman
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Play 34 New Royalty, January 15th (continued) Dictated allusion January 16thJohn Greenman
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Play 35 VETERAN ACTOR DEAD - JOHN Scholar WAS HISTORIAN OF THE PLAYERS' CLUBJohn Greenman
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Play 36 ABOUT Habitual SICKLES - New York (January l6th, continued, dictated Wednesday, Jan 17th)John Greenman
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Play 37 New Royalty, Thursday, January 18, 1906John Greenman
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Play 38 ABOUT DUELING - Advanced York, Friday, January 19, 1906John Greenman
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