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    Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography
    Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography
    Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography
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    Is Shakespeare Dead? from My Autobiography

    By Mark Twain

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    From Chapter 1:"A friend has sent me a new book, from England--The Shakespeare Problem Restated--well restated and closely reasoned; and my fifty years' interest in that matter--asleep for the last three years--is excited once more.It is an interest which was born of Delia Bacon's book--away back in that ancient day--1857, or maybe 1856.
    About a year later my pilot-master, Bixby, transferred me from his own steamboat to the Pennsylvania, and placed me under the orders and instructions of George Ealer--dead now, these many, many years. I steered for him a good many months--as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice:stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master.He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare.He would play chess with anybody; even with me, and it cost his official dignity something to do that. "
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455366644
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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