Reviews
"Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain's life, and will be rich with rambunctious, uncompromising opinions."--Herald Scotland, "Twain's writing here is electric, alternately moving and hilarious. He couldn't write a ho-hum sentence."--Library Journal, Twain generously provides the 21st century aficionado a marvelous read. His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe. . . . [He] has given us 'an astonishment' in his autobiography with his final, beautifully unorganized genius and intemperate thoughts. Pull up a chair and revel., Pure Twain at his typically discursive, rambling, and droll. . . . The bard of Hannibal still has much to say., "Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain's life, and will be rich with rambunctious, uncompromising opinions."-- Herald Scotland, "Twain's autobiography, finally available after a century, is a garrulous outpouring--and every word beguiles."--Wall Street Journal, "Twain's autobiography, finally available after a century, is a garrulous outpouring--and every word beguiles."-- Wall Street Journal, Twain's autobiography, finally available after a century, is a garrulous outpouring--and every word beguiles., Sometimes the autobiography seems Twain's letter to posterity. At other times, reading it feels like eavesdropping on a conversation he is having with himself. . . . This first installment of Twain's autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before., "This is a book for dipping, not plunging. Read, as Twain might put it, until interest pales, and then jump. It feels like a form of time travel."-- New York Times/The Opinion Pages, Brimming with Twain's humor, ideas and opinions, this is a book for anyone interested in the writer's work and life., The bestseller chart is awash with memoirs -- but none offer the extreme reading of the Autobiography of Mark Twain., "Sometimes the autobiography seems Twain's letter to posterity. At other times, reading it feels like eavesdropping on a conversation he is having with himself. . . . This first installment of Twain's autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before."-- New York Review of Books, "Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain's autobiography that he had decreed should not appear until 100 years after his death. And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect."-- New York Times, Twain's writing here is electric, alternately moving and hilarious. He couldn't write a ho-hum sentence., Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain's autobiography that he had decreed should not appear until 100 years after his death. And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect., This is a book for dipping, not plunging. Read, as Twain might put it, until interest pales, and then jump. It feels like a form of time travel., Twian's 'Final Plan' has been released in a truly spectacular first volume of his posthumous 'Autobiography'., "Pure Twain at his typically discursive, rambling, and droll. . . . The bard of Hannibal still has much to say." --American Heritage, "Twain generously provides the 21st century aficionado a marvelous read. His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe. . . . [He] has given us 'an astonishment' in his autobiography with his final, beautifully unorganized genius and intemperate thoughts. Pull up a chair and revel."--Los Angeles Times Book Review, Promises a no-holds barred perspective on Twain's life, and will be rich with rambunctious, uncompromising opinions., Twain's autobiography, finally available after a century, is a garrulous outpouring-and every word beguiles., "Twain generously provides the 21st century aficionado a marvelous read. His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe. . . . [He] has given us 'an astonishment' in his autobiography with his final, beautifully unorganized genius and intemperate thoughts. Pull up a chair and revel."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review, "Dip into the first enormous volume of Twain's autobiography that he had decreed should not appear until 100 years after his death. And Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect."--New York Times
