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About Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, and essayist
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He is best known for the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and for a body of work that helped define American writing in the late 19th century. His books also include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain's work is marked by wit, social satire, and a sharp eye for American life.
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Time: more sayings
- “I'm just at home all the time wearing jogging pants.”Frank Dukes
- “I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”Henry Rollins
- “Music has this ability to bridge time. You can hear a song from the 1920s and still be like, 'Oh, that's it.…”Misha Green
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Books by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of his best-known novels.