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References Worth Looking At

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910

Parents: John Marshall Clemens & Jane Lampton

Spouse: Olivia Louise Langdon (m. 1870–1904)

Children: Langdon Clemens (1870-1872), Susy Clemens (1872-1896), Clara Clemens (1874-1962), Jean Clemens (1880-1909)

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Genre: 

Literary Era: Realism

Info.

Bio.

Here you talk about them as a kid.

And as a teenager.

Then as an adult.

Then as a successful person.

Works

  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)

  • The Innocents Abroad (1869)

  • Eye Openers (1871)

  • Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871)

  • Screamers (1871)

  • Roughing It (1872)

  • The Gilded Age (1873)

  • Sketches New and Old (1875)

  • A Murder, a Myster and a Marriage (1876)

  • Old Times on the Mississippi (1876)

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

  • Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion (1877)

  • A Tramp Abroad (1880)

  • The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

  • The Stolen White Elephant (1882)

  • Life on the Mississippi (1883)

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

  • Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (1884)

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

  • Merry Tales (1892)

  • The American Claimant (1892)

  • The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

  • Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)

  • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)

  • Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)

  • Following the Equator (1897)

  • English as She is Taught (1900)

  • Extracts  from Adam's Diary (1904)

  • King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905)

  • Eve's Diary (1906)

  • A Horse's Tale (1907)

  • Christian Science (1907)

  • Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)

  • The Mysterious Stranger (1916)

  • Letters from Hawaii (1947)

  • The Adventures of Colonel Sellers (1965)

  • Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (2008)

  • Letters from the Earth (2009)

Themes

  • Religion and Flaws in Society

  • Humor and Adventure

  • Children and Personal Growth

  • Nature and Humanity

  • Irony and Hypocrisy

Cool Quotes

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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