READERS of the recently published "unexpurgated" autobiography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, are seldom moved to say "Tell us what you really think, Clemens".

But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role ...

J.P. Donleavy clocks the absurdities of human conduct in his satirical advice guide, “The Unexpurgated Code.” By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

A good case in point is the recently published, unexpurgated, eight-volume edition of The Greville Memoirs: 1814-1860, edited by Lytton Strachey & Roger Fulford (Macmillan, $80). First published ...

I'd like to think it was an appreciation of literary imagination that first drew me to J.P. Donleay's "The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners" - and perhaps it was.

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A macabre section in Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that was deleted by the author before publication has shocked and thrilled scholars studying a recently discovered ...