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Mark Twain

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born
November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, The United States

died
April 21, 1910

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


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Average rating: 3.76 · 783,105 ratings · 14,622 reviews · 557 distinct works
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 550,781 ratings — published 1884 — 147 editions
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 129,227 ratings — published 1876 — 21 editions
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The Prince and the Pauper
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23,246 ratings — published 1881 — 107 editions
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 24,003 ratings — published 1889 — 11 editions
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 8,887 ratings — published 1876 — 85 editions
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 5,449 ratings — published 1893 — 137 editions
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Life on the Mississippi
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 3,353 ratings — published 1883 — 141 editions
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The Diary of Adam and Eve
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 3,384 ratings — published 1905 — 62 editions
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The Innocents Abroad
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,999 ratings — published 1869 — 145 editions
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Quotes by Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
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“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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