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    Essays
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    Essays

    By Mark Twain and August Nemo

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    Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors.

    This book brings some of best essays of Mark Twain, across a wide range of subjects, including literature, social commentary, humor and many more topics.

    Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Many of his most relevant works were published by Tacet Books.

    The book contains the following texts:
    - Introduction by Edmund Gosse
    - How to Tell a Story
    - Advice to Youth
    - Taming The Bicycle
    - At the Funeral
    - Advice To Little Girls
    - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
    - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
    - Concerning Tobacco
    - The Bee
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTacet Books
    Release dateNov 3, 2021
    ISBN9783986778866
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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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