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Mark Twain


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

Died
April 21, 1910

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

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


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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 Huckleber...
3.83 avg rating — 1,355,555 ratings — published 1885 — 9833 editions
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3.92 avg rating — 1,047,760 ratings — published 1876 — 8521 editions
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The Prince and the Pauper
3.87 avg rating — 127,448 ratings — published 1881 — 4216 editions
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A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...
3.78 avg rating — 109,815 ratings — published 1889 — 7 editions
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The Adventures of Tom Sawye...
4.10 avg rating — 43,677 ratings — published 1884 — 5 editions
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve
3.84 avg rating — 20,390 ratings — published 1906 — 399 editions
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
3.75 avg rating — 19,914 ratings — published 1893 — 1090 editions
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Life on the Mississippi
3.87 avg rating — 15,807 ratings — published 1883 — 3 editions
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, t...
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The Mysterious Stranger
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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November 2014 Old School Classic Poll

Which book would you like to read for our November 2014 Old School Classic Group Read?

 
  27 votes, 20.1%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages
 
  24 votes, 17.9%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages
 
  14 votes, 10.4%

1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 157 pages
 
  12 votes, 9.0%

 
  12 votes, 9.0%

 
  10 votes, 7.5%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
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  7 votes, 5.2%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1834, Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 370 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

 
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