<P>Mark Twain expected to create a new form of autobiography in which 'I shall talk about the matter which for the moment interests me and cast it aside and talk about something else the moment its interest for me is exhausted.' <P>These transcriptions of his off-the-cuff telling of his own history allow one to feel as if he is listening to the great storyteller one-on-one.<P>Public Domain (P)2013 Richard Henzel