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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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Reflections: more sayings
- “And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.”Alanis Morissette
- “There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.”Cullen Hightower
- “Right after Katrina, we did 'Sippiana Hericane.' I was real upset with everything.”Dr. John
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Books by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of his best-known novels.