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

Robert Ingersoll, Ambrose Bierce, E. Haldeman-Julius, Jacques Loeb ...more

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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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Mark Twain’s books

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	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.82 avg rating — 1,188,949 ratings — published 1884 — 9471 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 by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Annotations), Ivan Kušan (Translator), John Seelye (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 807,591 ratings — published 1876 — 634 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 by Mark Twain, Everett H. Emerson (Afterword) 3.86 avg rating — 110,103 ratings — published 1881 — 127 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 3.76 avg rating — 99,952 ratings — published 1889 — 25 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 — 39,512 ratings — published 1884 — 263 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 3.79 avg rating — 21,678 ratings — published 1893 — 1548 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 by Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 14,272 ratings — published 1883 — 1941 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 3.82 avg rating — 13,239 ratings — published 1869 — 2344 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 3.90 avg rating — 14,387 ratings — published 1906 — 255 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
	Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto (Editor), Henry Nash Smith (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 7,613 ratings — published 1962 — 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

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Series by Mark Twain

Adventures of Tom and Huck (4 books)
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authorized Edition (3 books)
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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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Polls

Voting is now open for our December Classical read. Voting will stay open until November 15th, 2018 and the winning book will be announced on November 16th, 2018.

The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol

13 votes, 26.0%

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

8 votes, 16.0%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

6 votes, 12.0%

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

5 votes, 10.0%

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

5 votes, 10.0%

My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

5 votes, 10.0%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

4 votes, 8.0%

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

2 votes, 4.0%

Amerika by Franz Kafka

2 votes, 4.0%

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