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Are you ready for more uncensored Mark Twain? The eagerly-anticipated Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2, will be published in October. Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain’s life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across [more...]  www.thisismarktwain.com brings to life the Autobiography of Mark Twain in video slideshows, images, interviews with the editors and other Mark Twain scholars, and audio clips of excerpts from the book. The site takes readers behind the scenes to view materials only available at the Mark Twain Papers of The Bancroft Library. The reader can interact [more...] Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, died a century ago today, but he is still publishing books. He wanted it that way—he specified that his full autobiography not be published for 100 years after his death, and other writings for another 400 years after that. “When a man is writing a book dealing with the privacies of [more...] One hundred years after his death, Mark Twain is still funny. “His humor was lasting because it points out the incongruity of life, that ever widening gap between illusion and reality,” says Jerome Loving, author of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens, in this podcast. Loving, who has also written biographies of Walt Whitman [more...] On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain published the American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Early reviews ranged from praise to scathing criticism: the San Francisco Chronicle called it “the most amusing book Mark Twain has written for years”, while the Boston Evening Traveller denounced the book as “extraordinarily senseless…flat, stale and unprofitable” and remarked [more...] |
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