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  <default_description>&quot;Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy.&quot;--From the Introduction by Charles Neider

Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he &quot;free and frank and unembarrassed&quot; in the recounting of his life and his experiences.

Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Striking: his use of chiasmus (crossing of terms in one sentence). For instance: &quot;When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47423941">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliantly and hilariously mean, for the most part.  A rather disconnected collection of memories, anecdotes, and rants, set aside to be published posthumously.  Twain spends several chapters each excoriating a former business partner of his and the writer Bret Hart.  Of the widow of a poet friend,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37459413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I have decided to mete out the 5 stars sparingly. The rating wouldn't mean much if it was given to just any old book that I happened to like. <br/>This book though, is without a doubt, one of those few that actually deserves more than 5 stars and it is therefore one of my favorite books of all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26575558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On receiving the news of his daughter's death: &quot;It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live. There is but one reasonable explanation of it. The intellect is stunned by the shock and but gropingly gathers the meaning of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6217995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why read anyone else on Mark Twain when you can read his own words? Twain was brutally honest, devoting entire chapters to times of personal loss and failure. He covers one particular night when he bombed at a lecture, showing no particular ego. In another he covers the night his brother died with s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4757571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really interesting audiobiography.  Mark Twain wrote it with the condition that it would be published after his death.  This condition gave him greater freedom to express how he REALLY felt.  He was quite merciless to about a couple of people in his life whom he detested.  <br/><br/>He ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16085103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Alaska last summer I saw the leader singer of a punk band the morning after a show crying about something he was reading in this book and was intrigued.  I talked to him and he said that it just overtook him and he couldn't help himself.  we'll see!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[THIS BOOK WAS SO GREAT, you can hear his voice as you read it. It so affected me that I began speaking like the author for weeks after reading the book. I also bought a white seersucker suit. My girlfriend doesn't get it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the work of Mark Twain already but I was really moved by this autobiography. In the end, the story is really sad and I was nearly crying over something that happened more than a 100 years ago. A great writer. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, this man sure went through a lot to get where he did. Explains a lot of his writing though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an outstanding book that truly documents life, not just Mark Twain's but everyones.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining and revealing. As likable and witty as Mark Twain was....he was no Angel. I enjoyed reading about him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've ever read. You should read it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far it is okay.  Kind of self-conscious (I guess auto-biographies are like that.)  Also Twain seems to pepper the story with references to his other works, so it reads a bit like a promo to sell books.<br/><br/>Not the best.  I'll stick to his fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this after Churchill. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory--and sometimes not even that. I suppose that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28836760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read this book for Am. Lit. in high-school and I loved it. Mark Twain is such a funny, snarky, sharp and intelligent man. It that enough adjectives? Anytime I come across a saying of his I'm like, &quot;Damn, I love that guy!&quot; And while I was looking this here book up on &quot;Good rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17752801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like how some things seemed exactly the same 100 years ago (complaining about oil company profits) and some things were totally different (getting hair wet makes it fall out so no one ever washed their hair).<br/><br/>Mark Twain had a lot of funny, witty episodes he wrote about, but also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16399374">more...</a>]]></body>
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