{"id":11882,"date":"2010-06-10T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2613"},"modified":"2010-06-10T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:37:49","slug":"mark-twain-the-time-for-his-autobiography-to-be-published-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/mark-twain-the-time-for-his-autobiography-to-be-published-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain: The time (for his autobiography to be published) has come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe time for his autobiography to be published, that is. Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, and the century is finally up; you can read all about it at Guy Adams’s story<\/a>
\n\tin The Independent<\/em>. Of course, most of the juicy stuff has been
\n\tskimmed by biographers and others who have had access to the material
\n\tover the years, but it will still be good to have the master’s
\n\t“extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography” available in full
\n\t(in several volumes\u2014the whole thing runs to half a million words!).
\n\tApparently it’s pretty bitter, but he certainly had a right to be after
\n\twhat he’d seen of the world and of the direction his country was headed,
\n\tand I like my coffee black, unsweetened, and strong.<\/p>\n

\tIncidentally, the Mark
\n\tTwain Project Online<\/a> is worth bookmarking; it “offers unfettered,
\n\tintuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and
\n\tthe most recently discovered letters and documents” and its “ultimate
\n\tpurpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of
\n\teverything Mark Twain wrote.” Another fine use of the internet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The time for his autobiography to be published, that is. Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, and the century is finally up; you can read all about it at Guy Adams’s story in The Independent. Of course, most of the juicy stuff has been skimmed by biographers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}