Mark Twain died in 1910 and left strict instructions that many of his autobiography texts remain unpublished for 100 years, so that when they came out, he would be “dead, and unaware, and indifferent,” and that he was therefore free to speak his “whole frank mind.” Well it’s time, and Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it is now available to the world.

“Pure Twain at his typically discursive, rambling, and droll. … The bard of Hannibal still has much to say.” ~American Heritage

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