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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

Influences

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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 next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrat ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 2,631,509 ratings · 58,613 reviews · 3,582 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,227,140 ratings — published 1884 — 2951 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 — 875,864 ratings — published 1876 — 54 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 3.86 avg rating — 114,813 ratings — published 1881 — 4608 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 — 100,321 ratings — published 1889 — 4254 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 by Mark Twain, Shelly Fisher Fishkin (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 40,812 ratings — published 1884 — 109 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 — 17,588 ratings — published 1893 — 1727 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 3.88 avg rating — 15,776 ratings — published 1906 — 159 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 — 14,311 ratings — published 1883 — 2824 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 — 13,434 ratings — published 1869 — 2752 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 4.12 avg rating — 9,558 ratings — published 1916 — 375 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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Quotes by Mark Twain (?)

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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December 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1478, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 504 pages

58 votes, 20.7%

1886, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 288 pages

57 votes, 20.4%

1603, Othello by William Shakespeare, 314 pages

48 votes, 17.1%

1881, The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, 240 pages

38 votes, 13.6%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

35 votes, 12.5%

1852, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy, 320 pages

20 votes, 7.1%

1848, Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 437 pages

19 votes, 6.8%

1749, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 975 pages

5 votes, 1.8%

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