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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [ 1 ] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." [ 3 ]
The film tells a little-known story of Mark Twain as a young reporter, embarking on a maiden voyage over the Atlantic and across the Holy Land. His final destination: the ancient city of Jerusalem. Twain’s experiences and insights from this trip later shaped him as a quintessential American writer.
Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira is Mark Twain’s final resting place. The cemetery is also the final resting place for other family members, including Twain’s wife, her sister and brother-in-law, and children.
Nevertheless, by the time Clemens was 13, his boyhood had effectively come to an end. Mark Twain was a humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who remains best known for his adventure stories of American boyhood.
In this new biographical study, Karen Lystra advances what she describes as “an entirely new picture of Twain's final years” (p. x). Among the principal defects
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
In a span of only seven years, the crowd that takes Mark Twain seriously has acquired six fat new volumes, 4,363 pages of rich, challenging biographical discourse to sort out.
