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- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 16335 copies, 202 reviews
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 10002 copies, 87 reviews
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 4478 copies, 35 reviews
- The Prince and the Pauper 2923 copies, 22 reviews
- Life on the Mississippi 1724 copies, 13 reviews
- Pudd'nhead Wilson 1666 copies, 17 reviews
- The Innocents Abroad 1498 copies, 16 reviews
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1423 copies, 19 reviews
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings 1352 copies, 14 reviews
- Roughing It 1325 copies, 11 reviews
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain 1057 copies, 4 reviews
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Edition) 713 copies, 5 reviews
- Joan of Arc 682 copies, 10 reviews
- Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi,… 512 copies, 4 reviews
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve 498 copies, 15 reviews
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog, and Other Stories 435 copies, 4 reviews
- A Tramp Abroad 434 copies, 5 reviews
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain 379 copies, 3 reviews
- The Gilded Age 368 copies, 3 reviews
- The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations 337 copies, 3 reviews
- Following The Equator: A Journey Around the World 278 copies, 3 reviews
- The Portable Mark Twain 275 copies, 1 review
- Tom Sawyer Abroad 248 copies, 2 reviews
- The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg 243 copies, 3 reviews
- The War Prayer 231 copies, 8 reviews
- The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories [4 stories-Dover] 230 copies, 4 reviews
- Mark Twain : The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (Library of America) 221 copies, 1 review
- Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2 211 copies
- The Unabridged Mark Twain 207 copies, 2 reviews
- Mark Twain : Historical Romances : The Prince and the Pauper / A… 196 copies, 1 review
- The Family Mark Twain 188 copies
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We've invited Mark Twain himself to help celebrate the publication of "Who Is Mark Twain," a collection of 24 wickedly funny, culturally relevant, and thought-provoking essays by Mark Twain, all being published for the first time. A professional Mark Twain impersonator will be here to tell some stories ... (more)
We've invited Mark Twain himself to help celebrate the publication of "Who Is Mark Twain," a collection of 24 wickedly funny, culturally relevant, and thought-provoking essays by Mark Twain, all being published for the first time. A professional Mark Twain impersonator will be here to tell some stories ... (more)
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Mark Twain, the nom de plume of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American author, who was born on the 30th of November 1835, at Florida, Missouri. His father was a country merchant from Tennessee, who moved soon after his son's birth to Hannibal, Missouri, a little town on the Mississippi. When the boy was only twelve his father died, and thereafter he had to get his education as best he could. Of actual schooling he had little. He learned how to set type, and as a journeyman printer he wandered widely, going even as far east as New York. At seventeen he went back to the Mississippi, determined to become a pilot on a river-steamboat. But in 1861 the war broke out, and the pilot's occupation was gone. After a brief period of uncertainty the young man started West with his brother, who had been appointed lieutenant-governor of Nevada. He went to the mines for a season, and there he began to write in the local newspapers, adopting the pen name of "Mark Twain," from a call used in taking soundings on the Mississippi steamboats. He drifted in time to San Francisco, and it was a newspaper of that city which in 1867 supplied the money for him to join a party going on a chartered steamboat to the Mediterranian ports. The letters which he wrote during this voyage were gathered in 1869 into a volume, _The Innocents Abroad_, and the book immediately won a wide and enduring popularity. This popularity was of service to him when he appeared on the platform with a lecture--or rather with an apparently informal talk, rich in admirably delivered anecdote. He edited a daily newspaper in Buffalo for a few months, and in 1870 he married Miss Olivia L. Langdon, removing a year later to Hartford, where he established his home. He made a second visit to Europe and started a publishing firm in New York, himself a chief partner. But after a severe struggle the publishing house failed, leaving the author charged with its very heavy debts. After this disaster he went on a tour round the world, partly to make money by lecturing and partly to get material for another book of travels. In 1900, having paid off all the debts of his old firm, he returned to America. He had a great reception in England in 1907, when he went over to receive from Oxford the degree of Doctor of Literature. He died at Redding, Connecticut, on the 21st of April 1910. Of his four children, only one survived him.  | |
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