Editorial persistence has, at last, yielded the autobiography of Mark Twain in three volumes, of which this is the final instalment. The editors at the Mark Twain Project in California have sorted out the five thousand or so pages of dictated notes and miscellaneous typed or handwritten fragments that the great man left behind at his death in 1910. The result is a massive, rambling tome, supported by all the scholarly annotations and appendices one could wish for.

Literary Review

Dec 2015

Categories

Jay Parini

Battle Lines

Feds under the Bed

Tender Is the Writer

Getting into Character

No Fiesta

‘I Am in My Element And I Defy You…’

All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap

New World Orders

No Need To Be Depressed

‘Taller Than the Trees’

Earning His Badges

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

How the Party Started

Antic Roadshow

Wire Power