Twain had started Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which he consistently had problems completing and had completed his travel book , which describes his travels through central and southern Europe | Life on the Mississippi, chapter 50• In the 1870s and 1880s, the family summered at in Elmira, the home of Olivia's sister, Susan Crane |
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It is the only known existing film footage of Twain | It soon became an unexpected best-seller, making Twain one of a very few authors publishing new best-selling volumes in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries |
Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966• The scum of the earth! Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, New York: Da Capo Press, 1999.
25He had never been held up to ridicule before; he was sensitive, and he never got over the hurt which I had wantonly and stupidly inflicted upon his dignity | His three months in India became the centerpiece of his 712-page book |
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Foner, Mark Twain: Social Critic New York: International Publishers, 1958 , p | Cabin where Twain wrote "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", Jackass Hill, |
1912 My Platonic Sweetheart dream journal, possibly non-fiction• Alexander, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, no.
17Through Twain's efforts, the Connecticut legislature voted a pension for , since 1995 Connecticut's official heroine, for her efforts towards the education of young African-American women in Connecticut | The reason for the Ottawa visit had been to secure Canadian and British copyrights for Life on the Mississippi |
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The pilots thought it was brilliant | Most commercially successful was a self-pasting scrapbook; a dried adhesive on the pages needed only to be moistened before use |
Full text of the biography by Archibald Henderson• 7 m deep and it is safe to pass.
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