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Mark Twain

Also known as Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

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Mark Twain was an American author and humorist who lived from 1835 to 1910 and became one of the most celebrated writers in U.S. history. His works, known for their wit and social commentary, have made him a central figure in American literature and continue to be widely read and studied today.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 30 November 1835
Died: 21 April 1910
Works: 7344

Top works

Guía literaria de Londres
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated and Illustrated)
Aventures de Huck Finn / the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Illustrated and Annotated)

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Film & TV

Writing · Florida, Missouri, USA

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

Known for

Science — Story1911
The Prince and the Pauper — (as Samuel Clemens)1909
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) — Himself1909

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1835
Active to: 1910

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Discography

Bummel durch Europa2002
Tom Sawyer2006
Knallkopf Wilson2010
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn2012
Meistererzählungen2013
Die Tagebücher von Adam und Eva2014
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court2017
Bummel durch Europa

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 7,385
Total plays: 100,393

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
“I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”
“I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.”
“He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
“I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.”
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

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Wikidata facts

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birth name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Commons category: Mark Twain
date of birth: 1835-11-30
date of death: 1910-04-21
pseudonym: J. W. Bothwell
Commons Creator page: Mark Twain
name in native language: Mark Twain
Commons gallery: Mark Twain
start of work period: 1864-00-00
end of work period: 1910-00-00
P8168: Svetla Dimitrova
P12674: Q142191
P12749: Johann Gottfried Schnabel

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Works in European collections

25 objects attributed to Mark Twain, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer early in his career, and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to his older brother Orion Clemens's newspaper. Twain then became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, which provided him the material for Life on the Mississippi (1883). Soon after, Twain headed west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.