INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE & PREFACE BY MARK TWAIN

THE TENNESSEE LAND (Written about 1870)

EARLY YEARS IN FLORIDA, MISSOURI (Written in 1877)

THE GRANT DICTATIONS--1885--THE CHICAGO G. A. R. FESTIVAL

GRANT AND THE CHINESE (Dictated in 1885)

A CALL WITH W. D. HOWELLS ON GENERAL GRANT (Dictated in 1885)

ABOUT GENERAL GRANT'S "MEMOIRS" (Dictated in 1885)

GERHARDT AND THE GRANT BUST (Dictated in 1885)

THE REVEREND DOCTOR N---- VISITS GENERAL GRANT (Dictated 1885)

THE MACHINE EPISODE (Written in the closing days of 1890)

CHAPTERS BEGUN IN VIENNA - EARLY DAYS (Written 1897-8)

JANE LAMPTON CLEMENS

PLAYING "BEAR"--HERRINGS--JIM WOLF AND THE CATS (Written about 1898)

MACFARLANE  (Written about 1898)

OLD LECTURE DAYS IN BOSTON - Nasby, and others of Redpath's Lecture Bureau  (Written in 1898)

RALPH KEELER  (Written about 1898)

BEAUTIES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE (Written in 1898. Vienna)

A VIENNESE PROCESSION  (Written Sunday, June 26, 1898. Kaltenleutgeben)

COMMENT ON TAUTOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (Written 1898. Vienna)

PRIVATE HISTORY OF A MS. THAT CAME TO GRIEF (Written in 1900) and THE LETTER and NOTES

CHAPTERS ADDED IN FLORENCE (1904) - AUTHOR'S NOTE

VILLA QUARTO (Florence, January, 1904)

VILLA QUARTO (Continued)

A MEMORY OF JOHN HAY

NOTES ON "INNOCENTS ABROAD" (Florence, April, 1904)

STEVENSON, ALDRICH, ETC. (Florence, April, 1904)

HENRY H. ROGERS (Florence, April, 1904)

HENRY H. ROGERS (Continued) Added in 1909

INTERVAL OF TWO YEARS-January 9, 1906-MR. CLEMENS (to Mr. Paine):

New York, January 10, 1906

New York, January 12, 1906

New York, January 13, 1906

New York, January 15, 1906

MRS MORRIS'S ILLNESS TAKES A SERIOUS TURN -  A DISCUSSION IN THE CASE

New York, January 15th (continued)  Dictated on January 16th

VETERAN ACTOR DEAD -  JOHN MALONE WAS HISTORIAN OF THE PLAYERS' CLUB

ABOUT GENERAL SICKLES - New York (January l6th, continued, dictated Wednesday, January 17th)

New York, Thursday, January 18, 1906

ABOUT DUELING - New York, Friday, January 19, 1906

The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a candid, often humorous account of Twain's life and career, offering personal insight into his writing process and experiences. This book is not scripted nor is it a conventional autobiography, but rather an array of reminiscences, dictated across his later years.

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain