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    The Irrepressible Wit of Mark Twain
    The Irrepressible Wit of Mark Twain
    The Irrepressible Wit of Mark Twain
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    The Irrepressible Wit of Mark Twain

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    Five classic examples of the sheer comic genius of Mark Twain: The One Million Pound Bank Note - The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm - The Stolen White Elephant - Cannibalism in the Cars - The Awful German Language
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9781467668903
    The Irrepressible Wit of Mark Twain
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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