Description: The most authoritative and comprehensive record of two critical years in Mark Twain's life, 1874 and 1875.
Review Quotes: "The enormous labor of the California editors . . . has left remarkably few signs of strain, a circumstance that mirrors Clemens' own conviction that the best humor must appear to transpire effortlessly, no matter how much hard work it takes to bring it about."--Jeffrey Steinbrink, "American Literature