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The boys' life of Mark Twain: The story of a man who made the world laugh and love him (Hardcover)

~ Albert Bigelow Paine (Author) "A LONG time ago, back in the early years of another century, a family named Clemens moved from eastern Tennessee to eastern Missouri-from a small,..." (more)
Key Phrases: jumping frog, Mark Twain, New York, Samuel Clemens (more...)
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  Hardcover, July 24, 2007 $37.96 $34.18 $31.94
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1915. With many anecdotes, letters, illustrations and more. Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse and edited several magazines, but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, with whom he lived and traveled for four years. Partial Contents: The Family of John Clemens; The New Home, and Uncle John Quarles's Farm; School; Education Out of School; Tom Sawyer and His Band; Closing Schooldays; The Apprentice; Orion's Paper; The Open Road; A Wind of Chance; The Long Way to Amazon; Renewing an Old Ambition; Learning the River; River Days; The Wreck of the Pennsylvania; The Pilot; The End of Piloting; The Soldier; The Miner; The Territorial Enterprise; Mark Twain; Artemus War and Literary San Francisco; The Discovery of the Jumping Frog; Beginning Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Working with Mark Twain; Living with Mark Twain; and The Close of a Great Life. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A LONG time ago, back in the early years of another century, a family named Clemens moved from eastern Tennessee to eastern Missouri-from a small, unheard-of place called Pall Mall, on Wolf River, to an equally small and unknown place called Florida, on a tiny river named the Salt. Read the first page
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Mark Twain, New York, Samuel Clemens, Tom Sawyer, Sam Clemens, Little Sam, New Orleans, San Francisco, John Briggs, Quarry Farm, General Grant, Huck Finn, Orion Clemens, The Innocents Abroad, John Clemens, Bret Harte, Jane Clemens, Colonel Sellers, Joan of Arc, Virginia City, Horace Bixby, Artemus Ward, Holliday's Hill, Olivia Langdon, Quaker City
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