Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1, Part 2 by Mark TwainMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The epic work of the Mark Twain Project led to this professionally and ably narrated audiobook. Never compiled by the author into a cohesive document, this is really a curated and often annotated selection of notes for an autobiography, some even incomplete. This does not stop the enlightening insights, remembrances, and Twain humor from coming through to make this a very good read. Because of this lack of structure and Twain's desire to be discursive and even repetitive, there is much overlap with Part 1, such as recollections of Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, etc. This book includes a lot about some of the material Twain wanted repressed until after his death. Largely, this deals with unethical and negligent businessmen still alive at the time, including his nephew-in-law and partner Charles L. Webster. Twain also recalls the momentous
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