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American humorist and novelist Mark Twain, c. 1907.
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American humorists, 1868
Three prominent humorists of the 19th century were (from left) Josh Billings, Mark...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-57976)
An American abroad
Mark Twain in Constantinople, c. 1867, during the travels he later described in The...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-28851
The Mark Twain House & Museum
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) lived in this house in Hartford, Connecticut, with his...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Page from an 1884 edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, p 42. The American Publishing Company, 1884.
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Front cover of an 1885 edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Project Gutenberg (Text 76)
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title page from the 1885 edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry...
Project Gutenberg (Text 76)
Huckleberry Finn
Illustration of Huck Finn by E.W. Kemble from the 1885 edition of Mark Twain's Adventures...
Project Gutenberg (Text 76)
“America's Best Humorist”
Mark Twain, lithograph from Puck, 1885.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZC4-4294
Mark Twain
Known as a humorist in his own time, Mark Twain became frustrated with public perception...
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Mark Twain, c. 1907
In the last decade of his life Mark Twain received honorary degrees from Yale University...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-117475
Mark Twain in the company of family and friends
Mark Twain with his daughter Clara Clemens and her friend Marie Nichols, c. 1908.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ61-1150
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
Mark Twain is remembered first and foremost as a humorist, but he was also a public...
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, c. 1907.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-112065
Twain, Mark
Mark Twain.
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