Talk:Mark Twain's Library of Humor
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Fact check against the Twain Autobiography!
[edit]Twain Autobiography Volume 2 discusses this starting on page 146.
About the end of last April, Mr. Duneka began to vomit “Libraries of Humor” upon the public, and by and by I noticed two things: that these libraries were not my old book, and that the price was not cheap. Before I could rise to the size of the game Mr. Duneka was playing, he had spewed out three of these volumes and was ready to spew another. I have never examined one of these books further than to read through the Table of Authors who had furnished the material. I saw that they were modern authors. It may turn out that Mr. Duneka has put in one, or two, or three articles from the old book, but if this is true, it is neither according to the original agreement between him and me, nor in accordance with the paper which I signed. He has advertised the book largely, enthusiastically, shoutingly. He has called it “Mark Twain’s Library of Humor,” which it is not. He has advertised me as being the “editor” of it, whereas I had nothing to do with its construction, nor have I ever edited a line of it.