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Jan 9, 2018 · After Clemens’s death in 1910, Paine managed the papers with the goal of maximizing their profitability to the Mark Twain Company and the Estate by churning out a steady stream of Twain-related books and magazine articles based on materials in the archive: e.g., the hagiographical Mark Twain: A Biography (1912) and bowdlerized editions of Mark Twain’s Letters (1917), Mark Twain’s ...
University of California Press. 736 pages. $18.97. Yet, Clemens never actually managed to bring together all the pieces of his own self-absorption into one manuscript in his lifetime. He made his ...
Mark Twain, 1835-1910. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910) Writer. Although Samuel Clemens initially tasted fame and employed his pen name in Nevada and California, he traced his "Mark Twain" pseudonym to his pilot days on the Mississippi River, and many features of his writings can also be attributed to that southern background.
Jan 15, 2021 · Writing. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel.”. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri ...
He could not go comfortably along and cut his poles by the roadside, either, but they had to be hauled by ox teams across those exhausting deserts—and it was two days’ journey from water to water, in one or two of them. Mr. Street’s contract was a vast work, every way one looked at it; and yet to comprehend what the vague words “eight hundred miles of rugged mountains and dismal ...
Apr 18, 2022 · If you’ve been to Quarry Farm, you’ve probably heard the John T. Lewis story. If you’re a little more of a Mark Twain fan, you may be aware of Clemens’s August 25-27, 1877 letter to William Dean and Elinor Howells, published as part of the Mark Twain-Howells Letters. 1 Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910 (Cambridge, HUP ...
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cited as Writings. "I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices," Clemens wrote in this essay, originally published in I898; and the context of his statement has led most interpreters to assume with Albert Bigelow Paine that "the one race he bars is the French." See Paine's Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 vols. (New York, I9I2), II, io66.
