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Portrait of Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

1835–1910 · United States

The pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer whose river landscapes and comic narrators test custom, conscience and national self-description.

FictionChildren’s Literature

Life and context

A short timeline

  1. 1835

    Born in United States.

  2. 1876

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published.

  3. 1883

    Life on the Mississippi published.

  4. 1880

    A Tramp Abroad published.

  5. 1910

    End of the author’s recorded life.

Recurring concerns

Themes and style

  • childhood
  • conscience
  • freedom
  • performance

Vernacular dialogue, comic staging and moral pressure beneath apparently casual narration.

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Works by Mark Twain

18 works in the Linden collection.

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