Mark Twain

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Mark Twain


Born
in Florida, Missouri, The United States
November 30, 1835

Died
April 21, 1910

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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The Adventures of Huckleber...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Prince and the Pauper

3.87 avg rating — 121,461 ratings — published 1881 — 4329 editions
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A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...

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Pudd'nhead Wilson

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve

3.86 avg rating — 17,818 ratings — published 1906 — 360 editions
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Life on the Mississippi

3.87 avg rating — 15,037 ratings — published 1883 — 2151 editions
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, t...

3.84 avg rating — 14,268 ratings — published 1869 — 1272 editions
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The Mysterious Stranger

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Quotes by Mark Twain  (?)
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
Mark Twain

Polls

Remember? (random poll, sorry.)

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
 
  25 votes, 33.8%

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
 
  13 votes, 17.6%

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. -The Wonder Years
 
  10 votes, 13.5%

Remember When "Goodbyes" only meant until tomorrow...
 
  9 votes, 12.2%

"Remember, Remember the fifth of November the Gunpowder Treason and plot-"
 
  5 votes, 6.8%

I Remember when I was a kid we had to walk to school in the snow, uphill, both ways. And we liked it!
 
  5 votes, 6.8%

Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is EVER forgotten. - Robin of Sherwood (write-in)
 
  4 votes, 5.4%

Always Remember!!! ;_;
 
  2 votes, 2.7%

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  1 vote, 1.4%

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