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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. Kindle Edition

by Mark Twain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0082Z439O
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (May 12, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 119 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 39 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1444468383

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Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.

Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'

Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.

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GraceEmily

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2014

Good Mark Twain.

Maybe the premis is a stretch part 4

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2012

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Maybe the premise is a stretch . . . but then again it is fiction. And it has withstood the test of time. I would rate this right along with "The Mouse That Roared" for entertainment value. If you haven't read it, you should do so. But why is it broken into so many pieces?

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CT

Oh, I like the book but...

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2016

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Please, please, please, PLEASE don't make me rate the book every time I finish the book. Please, it gets annoying.

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