About mark twain biography volume 2 review

"There is one thing which fills me with wonder and reverence every time I think of  it-and that is the confident and splendid fight for supremacy which the house-fly makes against the human being.

Man, by his inventive ingenuity, has in the course of the ages, by help of diligence and determination, found ways to acquire and establish his mastery over every living creature under the vault of heaven-except the house-fly.

The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.

The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.

Mark Twain's autobiography is really, really impressive.

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Twain's narrative is not in any sense a mere fairy tale, many of the chapters, especially the earlier ones, are vividly true in their presentation.

The eagerly-awaited Volume 2 delves deeper into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.

With the house-fly he has always failed. The house-fly is as independent of him to-day as he was when Adam made his first grab for one and didn't get him. The house-fly defies all man's inventions for his subjugation or destruction.

No creature was ever yet devised that could meet man on his own level and laugh at him and defy him, except the house-fly." 



-- "The Supremacy of the House-Fly" from "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2"