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The Autobiography of Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

First published: 1906
Pages: 492

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Late in life Mark Twain gave up on writing his memoirs in order and began simply dictating them, wandering from subject to subject as memory led him. The result is a sprawling, candid, often very funny record of his boyhood in Missouri, his years on the river and out West, his triumphs and business disasters, and his blunt opinions on the people and politics of his day. He insisted that large parts stay unpublished until long after his death so he could speak freely about the living. Selections appeared in his lifetime, and fuller editions followed across the next hundred years. A free PDF and EPUB edition are available here.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".