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Twain, Mark; Kiskis, Michael J. & Arthur Miller & Shelley Fisher Fishkin ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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Twain, Mark; Kiskis, Michael J. & Arthur Miller & Shelley Fisher Fishkin Chapters from My Autobiography (1906-1907) (Oxford Mark Twain)
Oxford University Press, USA 1996 0195101561 / 9780195101560 First - First Edition; First Pri Hardcover Near Fine near fine Hardcover
Book's pages have light stains at the top, otherwise fine. Dust jacket (lightly rubbed and bumped at corners) is . encased in a protective Brodart mylar cover Red cloth spine to red boards, square and tight; red dust jacket has photo of Mark Twain on light yellow background. An afterword by Michael J. Kiskis and an introduction by Authur Miller. ; 1.02 x 8.75 x 6.5 Inches; Beginning in January 1906, Clemens dictated in some 242 sittings a long and complex autobiographical manuscript. He published selected chapters from this extensive dictation in the North American Review, in 26 installments, and it is this version that is published here. "Reading along, one becomes aware of being spoken to by this book, that it is really a chat," Arthur Miller writes in his introduction. "It is wonderfully visual, full of recollected pictures, the best kind of listening. You can just about hear him laughing, or his voice growing husky in the sad parts. Clearly there are long rambles with no particular thematic relevance beyond the simple pleasure of the telling, like rummaging through cabinets and closets and trying on discarded shoes, old gloves and a half-remembered jacket or two." In this volume, Miller writes, "the author who more than any other was the surveyor who marked the boundaries of American literature" reflects on his childhood, ponders his career as a writer, and recalls the joy and the pain of being a husband and a father.
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