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| Name: |
Mark Twain | | Variant Name: |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens | | Birth Date: |
November 30, 1835 | | Death Date: |
April 21, 1910 | | Place of Birth: |
Florida, Missouri, United States | | Place of Death: |
Redding, Connecticut, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, humorist |
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 Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
18,401 words, approx. 61 pages
 An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized... summary from source:
Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
17,980 words, approx. 60 pages
Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years... summary from source:
 Biography of Mark Twain
12,083 words, approx. 40 pages
In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mark Twain Information
9,509 words, approx. 32 pages
 <imagemap> Image:Padlock-silver-medium.svg Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain, Brady-Handy photo portrait, Feb 7, 1871, cropped.jpg}} | Mark Twain, 1871 photo portrait Pseudonym Mark Twain Born November 30 1835 ( 1835-11-30 ) Florida , Missouri...
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 AP News Billy Crystal to get Mark Twain prize
5/1/2007: 273 words, approx. 1 pagesBilly Crystal will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.He's the 10th recipient of the award, given annually by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It'll be presented Oct. 11 at a tribute performance that will be televised by PBS."The... summary from source:
Investor's Business Daily Clemens Made A Name For Himself: Mark Twain
8/9/2007: 928 words, approx. 3 pagesSamuel Langhorne Clemens wanted readers to get a hearty dose of reality from his work.So he did what all good writers do -- write what you know. Clemens, who achieved worldwide fame using the pen name Mark Twain, based virtually all his writings on personal...
Literary Criticism
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 Louis A. Renza
10,710 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Renza discusses various critical responses to the random and repetitious presentation of events in Mark Twain's Autobiography and Life on the Mississippi.
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Critical Essay by Andrew Hook
6,040 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Hook contends that Mark Twain's greatest contribution to realism in his short fiction was primarily through his use of American vernacular speech.
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Larry R. Dennis
5,391 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Dennis discusses Mark Twain's handling of death in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and in his unfinished "The Great Dark. "
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Essay Grade: 92%Criticizing the Blind
1,074 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay discusses how Mark Twain reveals society at its worst in hopes of making it better.
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