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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

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 2,718,467 ratings · 62,371 reviews · 10,862 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,259,883 ratings — published 1884 — 14634 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 — 927,770 ratings — published 1876 — 51 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 — 118,738 ratings — published 1881 — 6536 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 — 103,010 ratings — published 1889 — 5164 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 — 41,600 ratings — published 1884 — 394 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 — 18,261 ratings — published 1893 — 1960 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 3.87 avg rating — 16,966 ratings — published 1906 — 399 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 — 14,717 ratings — published 1883 — 3600 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 3.84 avg rating — 13,949 ratings — published 1869 — 3099 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 4.13 avg rating — 10,415 ratings — published 1916 — 877 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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