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- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) The piece that first catapulted Twain into the national eye is, in truth, not so much a book as a short story.
- The Innocents Abroad (1869) Growing up, Twain was big on travel and took many opportunities to gallivant around the world: a passion that shows up in spades in this early work.
- Roughing It (1872) When he was only 26 years old, Samuel Clemens lit out to California to mine for gold: this became the basis for Roughing It, or the prequel to The Innocents Abroad and a semi-autobiographical memoir about Twain’s experiences in the American west.
- The Gilded Age (1873) Published in 1873 and co-written with Charles Dudley Warner based on a bet with their wives, The Gilded Age was Twain’s first novel.
Nov 21, 2010 · Mark Twain's century-old memoir offers an authentic glimpse into a brilliant mind, says Tim Adams
Dec 16, 2010 · By Garrison Keillor. Dec. 16, 2010. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. Samuel L. Clemens was a cheerful promoter of himself, and even after he’d ...
1,270,106 ratings19,999 reviews. A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.
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Powers is humbly good-natured in his encounters with the Freudian delegation of Mark Twain critics, advancing a nice Oedipal theory about the writer's chaste but emotionally charged...
5,701 reviews 253 followers. March 26, 2019. First sentence: For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. Premise/plot: The Innocents Abroad is a nonfiction travel book by Mark Twain.
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119,872 ratings2,861 reviews. This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar.
