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Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), an American writer, humorist, lecturer, and former Mississippi riverboat pilot. His fiction brought vernacular speech and sharp social criticism into American literature, most famously in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament.

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