The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain is as famous for its fictional qualities as for its lively writing style. This is one of the reasons the workwhich exists in three distinct and competing versionshas lived on for generations and inspired much debate. This entry studies the 1959 version, edited and arranged by Charles Neider and available in paperback from Perennial Classics

Twain's autobiography was originally published in 1924 (fourteen years after Twain's death) by...

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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

5,321 words, approx. 18 pages

BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied pub... Read more

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Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, oft... Read more

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

6,308 words, approx. 22 pages

At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

10,254 words, approx. 35 pages

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

7,170 words, approx. 24 pages

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a... Read more

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

5,257 words, approx. 18 pages

For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being... Read more

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17,900 words, approx. 60 pages

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