Mark Twain

Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He is best known as a humorist and for his series of fictional books involving Tom Sawyer. His classics [Tom Sawyer]? and [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]? are widely read in schools across the U.S., as well as in many other western countries.

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In recent years, there have been attempts to ban the book from various libraries, because Twain's use of local color offends some people. His family suppressed an especially irreverent work, [Letters from the Earth] until recently.

Additional Works Include: The $30,000 Bequest (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/beqst11.htm
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/hfinn10.htm
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/sawyr10.htm
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/cptsf10.htm
A Connecticut Yankee (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/yanke11.htm
A Horse's Tale (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/hrstl10.htm
Life on the Mississippi (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/lmiss11.htm
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/hdlyb10.htm
Pudd'n'head Wilson (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/puddn10.htm
Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/sawy210.htm
Tom Sawyer Detective (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/sawy311.htm
A Tramp Abroad (fiction): http://selfknowledge.com/tramp11.htm
What Is Man? (essay): http://selfknowledge.com/wman10.htm

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