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Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
It was in these days that Twain became a writer of the Sagebrush School; he was known later as its most famous member. [114] Twain's first important work was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865.
Gribben, Alan. "Tom Sawyer, Tom Canty, and Huckleberry Finn: The Boy Book and Mark Twain." Mark Twain Journal 55.1/2 (2017): 127-144 online; Hill, Hamlin L. "The Composition and the Structure of Tom Sawyer." American Literature 32.4 (1961): 379-392 online. Kenny, Neil. "of Literature on Beliefs The Example of Injun Joe in Twain's Adventures of ...
Short story collections by Mark Twain (6 P) Pages in category "Works by Mark Twain" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
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One of the most valuable misprints can be found in the original 1885 edition of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, the classic tale of friendship and mischief along the ...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication.
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.