SOURCE: "Killing Time With Mark Twain's Autobiographies," in ELH, Vol. 54, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 157-82.
In the following essay, Renza discusses various critical responses to the random and repetitious presentation of events in Mark Twain's Autobiography and Life on the Mississippi.
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