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Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.

In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.

In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.

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Extended Sample Following the Equator by Mark Twain
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Extended Sample Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
Extended Sample A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Extended Sample A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Roughing It by Mark Twain
Extended Sample Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals by Mark Twain
Extended Sample A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Extended Sample The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
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