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Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCreated from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt; founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Closing Words\" movingly commemorate his daughter Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished \"Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,\" Mark Twain's caustic indictment of his \"putrescent pair\" of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as a landmark publication in American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Editors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. 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