The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Dictated to be published only long after his death, Twain's unruly, candid memoir wanders through grief, humor, and score-settling, the man without a mask.
Twain dictated his memoirs late in life with the instruction that they not be published until decades after his death, freeing him to be candid, digressive, and often savage about the people and politics of his age. Rather than a chronological life story, the book wanders wherever his memory and grudges led on a given morning. The result is intimate and unruly, full of grief, humor, and score-settling, and as close as readers get to Twain talking without a mask.
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