By Liz Sonneborn
The main liked slapstick comedian of his day, Mark Twain is this day certainly one of the best authors the us has ever produced. Born Samuel Clemens, a negative boy hailing from the standard frontier city of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain thrilled readers through the nineteenth century together with his observations concerning the top and worst within the American personality. Mark Twain explores how Clemens, utilizing his recognized pen identify, drew from his lifestyles reviews to create his best-known works, together with The Innocents in a foreign country, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court docket, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and can pay unique cognizance to his masterpiece, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a singular that keeps to resonate in our time.
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