Excerpts from the Forthcoming Mark Twain's Autobiography

One hundred years after his death, the University of California Press is publishing the Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition in a series of three volumes, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and the editors of the Mark Twain Project. It will be the first time the entire text has appeared in print.


The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is presenting for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it.

The book You can download and read two excerpts on the UC Press site

http://www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/11412.excerpt1.pdf

http://www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/11412.excerpt2.pdf