马克吐温曾说过关于英国的农村地区“室外绝对漂亮”，他也曾对美国伯克郡的克拉克艺术学院同样感慨于怀。

Mark Twain once said about rural England that it was "too absolutely beautiful to be left out of doors." He could have said the same about the Berkshires, where the Clark is set.

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但如今百年已临近，加州大学伯克利分校的“马克·吐温”项目开始着手定稿。

But as the centenary approached, the Mark Twain Project, a scholarly effort housed at the University of California, Berkeley, got going on this definitive edition of the book.

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它花了加州伯克利大学，戒备森严的气候控制室内，12位编辑工作者六年的时间，编辑出马克·吐温的三大部自传。

It took 12 editors working for six years, at the University of California Berkley's heavily-guarded climate-controlled vault in the Mark Twain Project to produce the three volume-autobiography.

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