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Mark Twain

Born

in Florida, Missouri, The United States

November 30, 1835

Died

April 21, 1910

Website

http://www.marktwainproject.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Robert Ingersoll, Ambrose Bierce, E. Haldeman-Julius, Jacques Loeb ...more

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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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 2,858,634 ratings · 71,728 reviews · 8,560 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,311,720 ratings — published 1884 — 973 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 988,711 ratings — published 1876 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince and the Pauper 3.87 avg rating — 123,450 ratings — published 1881	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 3.77 avg rating — 106,391 ratings — published 1889 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4.10 avg rating — 42,567 ratings — published 1884 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pudd'nhead Wilson 3.75 avg rating — 19,098 ratings — published 1893 — 399 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diaries of Adam and Eve 3.85 avg rating — 18,451 ratings — published 1906 — 376 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life on the Mississippi 3.87 avg rating — 15,251 ratings — published 1883 — 2152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress 3.84 avg rating — 14,491 ratings — published 1869 — 267 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysterious Stranger 4.12 avg rating — 11,254 ratings — published 1916 — 449 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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September 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 1889, 184 pages

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%

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 416 pages

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%

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages

19 votes, 6.0%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages

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%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages

16 votes, 5.1%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages

13 votes, 4.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages

10 votes, 3.2%

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages

9 votes, 2.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages

3 votes, 1.0%

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