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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 3.83 avg rating — 1,300,877 ratings — published 1884 — 10352 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 — 978,496 ratings — published 1876 — 8900 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 — 122,573 ratings — published 1881 — 4348 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 3.77 avg rating — 105,732 ratings — published 1889 — 2095 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 — 42,347 ratings — published 1884 — 391 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 — 18,928 ratings — published 1893 — 1117 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 — 18,206 ratings — published 1906 — 360 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 — 15,153 ratings — published 1883 — 5 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 — 14,386 ratings — published 1869 — 1271 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 — 11,058 ratings — published 1916 — 726 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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