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Samuel Clemens lived 75 years, 50 under the pseudonym Mark Twain. His youth could be characterized as sometimes mischievous, his older years as generally eccentric and his writing as always provocative. Twain left a literary canon of nearly 50 books, hundreds of short stories and essays, and a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sam Clemens: Add a description of this character.
- Webster
- Mark Twain
- Henry
- Livy
- John Clemens
- Samuel Clemens
- Tom Sawyer
- Jervis Langdon
- Jean
- Jane Clemens
- Susy
- Huck Finn
- Jennie
- Pamela
- Rudyard Kipling
- Bixby
- Katy Leary
- Mary
- Jim
- Benjamin
- Margaret
- Wilson
- Little Sam
- Becky Thatcher
- Clemenses
- Laura Hawkins
- Susan Crane
- Huckleberry Finn
- Griffin
- Franklin
- William Dean Howells
Setting & Locations edit
- Hartford
- New York City
- Elmira
- Hannibal
- St. Louis
- Mississippi River
- Buffalo
- Missouri
- Europe
- United States
- California
- San Francisco
- Quarry Farm
- Nevada
- Tennessee
- America
- Connecticut
- England
- Paine
- Philadelphia
- Quaker City
- Kaplan
- Keokuk
- Carson City
- Main Street
- East Hill
- Jamestown
- Pennsylvania
- Florida
- Sandwich Islands
- Kentucky
- Iowa
- London
- Memphis
- Stormfield
- Washington
First Sentence edit
Mark Twain was a showman and a shaman, a celebrity and a personality, hut Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man behind the showman, loved language even more than he loved people and celebrated the loud intersections of the two, those meetings and crossovers of one over the other, most of all.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Connie Ann Kirk (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818.409
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 19th Century
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Journalists
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › United States
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
- Books › Reference › Writing
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