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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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	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 1,344,938 ratings — published 1885 — 10571 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 — 1,029,514 ratings — published 1876 — 9062 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 — 126,196 ratings — published 1881 — 4444 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
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 3.78 avg rating — 108,720 ratings — published 1889 — 3668 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 — 43,389 ratings — published 1884 — 578 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 3.84 avg rating — 19,889 ratings — published 1906 — 83 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 — 19,649 ratings — published 1893 — 1112 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 — 15,629 ratings — published 1883 — 2161 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 — 15,014 ratings — published 1869 — 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 Mysterious Stranger 4.12 avg rating — 11,856 ratings — published 1916 — 41 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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