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The Mark Twain we read in High School also wrote some rather racy books and essays which were published, with a very limited circulation, or left unpublished enitrely, for fear that out then-Victorian sensibilities would somehow be offended, and our picture of the man as a wise, beloved, sexless, and fatherly figure might somehow be compromised. It is, however, only by reading his unabridged, unedited thoughts and views that we see a Man who thought and wrote of things way before his Time...He said he was confined to his Age, the 75 year period between the sightings of Haley's Comet, and was content with his 75 years on the planet...but his writings indicate a much more far-reaching and far seeing, and sometimes quite curmudgeony view of the world in which he lived...He was to Victorian Society what a man like Kurt Vonnegut was to our later Society of the mid to late 20th Century, and beyond...His ideas are wonderful, refreshing and add to our understanding of his True Spirit and range of Thought. A Must Read for any Twain fan!Read full review
I received Volume II of Mark Twain Unabridged about 15 years ago. Recently, I took a course on Mark Twain and became again interested in some of his earlier (and greatest) works. Volume I represents Twain's finest works including Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and the greatest of all American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This series, released in the 1970s by Running Press, represents over 2300 pages of unedited Twain. I believe this pair may be the most economical means of obtaining all of Twain's most relevant works.
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