Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 : The Complete and Authoritative Edition - Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

The Complete and Authoritative Edition

By: Mark Twain, Victor Fischer (Editor), Sharon K. Goetz (Editor), Michael Barry Frank (Editor), Leslie Diane Myrick (Editor)

Paperback | 26 May 2026

At a Glance

Paperback


$73.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $18.44 with

 or 

Available: 26th May 2026

Preorder. Will ship when available.

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."—New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."—Los Angeles Times Book Review When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created 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 Autobiography'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 Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript," Mark Twain's caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair" of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their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. Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the twentieth century, Autobiography of Mark Twain 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 Autobiography emerges as a landmark publication in American literature. Editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith Associate Editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Christopher M. Ohge

More in Literary Autobiographies

100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events - Colin Salter

RRP $44.99

$35.75

21%
OFF
Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts - Margaret Atwood

RRP $69.99

$49.95

29%
OFF
How to End a Story : Collected Diaries 1978-1998 - Helen Garner

RRP $59.99

$45.00

25%
OFF
On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
How to End a Story : Diaries 1995-1998 - Helen Garner

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
How to End a Story : Diaries 1995-1998 - Helen Garner

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Always Home, Always Homesick - Hannah Kent

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Walden : Macmillan Collector's Library - Henry David Thoreau

RRP $14.99

$12.75

15%
OFF
I Feel Bad About My Neck : And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman - Nora Ephron
On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Yellow Notebook : Diaries 1978-1987 - Helen Garner

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Wish I Was Here : An Anti-Memoir - M. John Harrison
Going Solo : Popular Penguins : Popular Penguins - Roald Dahl
A Private Spy : The Letters of John le CarrÚ 1945-2020 - John le Carré
Mem's the Word : Untapped - Mem Fox

RRP $19.95

$8.75

56%
OFF
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Devotion : Why I Write - Patti Smith

RRP $18.95

$17.75

The Year of Magical Thinking : Collins Modern Classics - Joan Didion
Exit Wounds : A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars - Peter Godwin
Mermaids Singing and Peel Me a Lotus - Charmian Clift

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Long and Winding Road : My Autobiography - Lesley Pearse

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF