Surprised retailers haven't been able to keep the dictionary-size tome on their shelves or in warehouses, relegating many would-be purchasers to waiting lists -- or inflated prices reaching $750 on Amazon.com.
From the Amazon link you posted;
"You feel like you're sitting in the room with him," said Linda Morris, professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis. "You get a very, very strong sense of his voice and a strong sense of his thought association."
Versions of the information have been released over the years by editors who snipped and jiggered, carved and fuddled. This is the first time it has been left in the order Twain dictated and with the honesty requiring the century-long embargo.
"What he decided was an autobiography as a chronology is a nonstop lie," said Gregg Camfield, a Twain scholar and literature professor at the University of California, Merced. "A real life is all the digressions; it's all the side trips. What he wanted to do was show a mind at work."
BTW It's a good thing Joel Leyden the author wasn't trying to show off the incredible writing skills he picked up from Sam, "But I will only articulate and limit my feelings about Sam from that house he lived in. One can tell much from what is on both the floor and the walls and in between."
- floor molding???
Let's just say Mark Twain has certainly lived one of the most interesting lives of any person of the latter half of the 19th Century--probably at the end of his life he could remember the arrival of the telegraph, telephone, motion pictures and possibly even the earliest test broadcasts of a new technology called radio....