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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain


Born
in Florida, Missouri, The United States
November 30, 1835

Died
April 21, 1910

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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The Adventures of Huckleber...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Prince and the Pauper

3.87 avg rating — 123,450 ratings — published 1881
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A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...

3.77 avg rating — 106,391 ratings — published 1889 — 19 editions
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Pudd'nhead Wilson

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve

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Life on the Mississippi

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The Innocents Abroad, Or, t...

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The Mysterious Stranger

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Quotes by Mark Twain  (?)
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
Mark Twain

Polls

September 2017 Old School Classic Poll

 
  48 votes, 15.2%

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1600, 289 pages
 
  43 votes, 13.7%

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1894, 277 pages
 
  33 votes, 10.5%

 
  26 votes, 8.3%

Utopia by Thomas More 1516, 135 pages
 
  25 votes, 7.9%

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 1839, 817 pages
 
  19 votes, 6.0%

 
  19 votes, 6.0%

 
  18 votes, 5.7%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages
 
  17 votes, 5.4%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages
 
  16 votes, 5.1%

 
  16 votes, 5.1%

 
  13 votes, 4.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

 
  9 votes, 2.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.0%

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