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Book SynopsisMark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. The name Mark Twain is a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and a publisher.
Twain wrote many books but his most famous works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He is also well known as the author of The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
Twain moved around a great deal during his life and lived in Europe for some years. He finally settled near Redding in Connecticut where he died on 21 April 1910.
Trade ReviewThe hero is one of the most endearing in literature * Daily Telegraph *
Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction * Sunday Express *
In
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger's
The Catcher In The Rye to Pynchon's
Mason And Dixon, in mapping a fluvial, free-flowing adventure * Guardian *
Twain had a gift for reliving the innermost feelings of growing up, the insecurity, fears and hopes that lie beneath the swagger that young boys maintain. He turned them into literature * Daily Mail *
This classic story will stay with you through life, and always remind you of the things that you knew were important when you first read it -- Katy Guest * The Independent *
