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MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author's Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…
MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author's Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…
MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author's Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…
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This collection of travel books, essays, speeches, letters and autobiographical writings illustrates the other side of the man known as Mark Twain.
Travel Books
The Innocents Abroad
Roughing It
Old Times on the Mississippi
A Tramp Abroad
Life on the Mississippi
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Essays, Satires & Articles
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
What Is Man? And Other Essays
Editorial Wild Oats
Advice to Youth
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Concerning the Jews
To the Person Sitting in Darkness
To My Missionary Critics
Christian Science
Queen Victoria's Jubilee
Essays on Paul Bourget
The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
Mrs. Eddy in Error
Stirring Times in Austria
The Czar's Soliloquy
King Leopold's Soliloquy
Adam's Soliloquy
Essays on Copyrights
Other Essays
The Complete Speeches
The Complete Letters
Chapters from my Autobiography
Biography
Mark Twain: A Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He is best known for his two novels – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but his satirical stories and travel books are also widely popular. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned him praise from critics and peers. He was lauded as the greatest American humorist of his age.
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Release dateJul 21, 2017
ISBN9788026878230
MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author's Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…
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Mark Twain

Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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