Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 8:54:02 GMT
Autobiography of Mark TwainThis year marks the centenary of the death of Mark Twain , a great American writer perhaps best known for writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , two classics that I highly recommend reading. As he wrote to a friend of his in a letter in 1904: “You will never know how much fun you are missing until you dictate your autobiography.” And so, after hundreds of pages, Twain prepared the definitive story of his life. He gave precise instructions that these texts would remain unpublished until he was "dead, unaware and indifferent" and therefore free to speak in "all frankness". And it is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his death that the University of California Press is publishing for the first time the first of three volumes of Mark Twain's complete autobiography, as it was left.
The text contains formidable memories of youth about idyllic landscapes, colorful portraits of friends and enemies, a searing polemic of the American massacre of Filipino insurgents in 1906, a hilarious piece about an editor who had the courage to modify his prose, and much even more. The autobiography was published thanks to the contribution of the Mark Special Data Twain Project .Several hours later everything was ready and the man stood aside with his head bowed, reluctantly accepting the law of his time. The woman, crying, had entered the house to prepare to give her youth to her lord. The woman's father had asked the feudal lord to accept her daughter's wishes and take her in the dark, such was the young woman's shyness.
And he had accepted her request, already enjoying that fresh and immaculate body. When she entered the bedroom, completely shrouded in darkness, she smelled the scent of freshly picked flowers and other fragrances that she couldn't recognize. She glimpsed the woman's form, motionless under her sheets. He caressed her face, which seemed strangely cold to him. He then tore off her dress, took off his trousers and penetrated her forcefully. The girl was terrified, the man thought, she didn't move or say a word. She hoped that he had hurt her while deflowering her, even though that type of woman was so proud that he would never admit it. During intercourse the man had frantically groped and kissed that body which remained inert, without heat, like a silent surrender to that manifestation of authority and power.
The text contains formidable memories of youth about idyllic landscapes, colorful portraits of friends and enemies, a searing polemic of the American massacre of Filipino insurgents in 1906, a hilarious piece about an editor who had the courage to modify his prose, and much even more. The autobiography was published thanks to the contribution of the Mark Special Data Twain Project .Several hours later everything was ready and the man stood aside with his head bowed, reluctantly accepting the law of his time. The woman, crying, had entered the house to prepare to give her youth to her lord. The woman's father had asked the feudal lord to accept her daughter's wishes and take her in the dark, such was the young woman's shyness.
And he had accepted her request, already enjoying that fresh and immaculate body. When she entered the bedroom, completely shrouded in darkness, she smelled the scent of freshly picked flowers and other fragrances that she couldn't recognize. She glimpsed the woman's form, motionless under her sheets. He caressed her face, which seemed strangely cold to him. He then tore off her dress, took off his trousers and penetrated her forcefully. The girl was terrified, the man thought, she didn't move or say a word. She hoped that he had hurt her while deflowering her, even though that type of woman was so proud that he would never admit it. During intercourse the man had frantically groped and kissed that body which remained inert, without heat, like a silent surrender to that manifestation of authority and power.