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Mark Twain


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

Died
April 21, 1910

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

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


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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 ...more

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The Prince and the Pauper
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Life on the Mississippi
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“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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January 2017 Short Story Poll

The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 1947, 96 pages
 
  54 votes, 23.4%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879, 122 pages
 
  38 votes, 16.5%

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, 1888, 32 pages
 
  32 votes, 13.9%

 
  31 votes, 13.4%

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916, 121 pages
 
  25 votes, 10.8%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 1958, 54 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.5%

Gigi by Colette, 1942, 58 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.5%

 
  11 votes, 4.8%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 1909, 48 pages
 
  10 votes, 4.3%

231 total votes
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