Mark Twain

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Why Is Mark Twain Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Samuel Langhorne Clemens , known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson , and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner.

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What Are Mark Twain's Academic Contributions?

Mark Twain has made the following academic contributions:

• What Is Man?
• Tom Sawyer Abroad
• The War Prayer
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Million Pound Bank Note
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
• My Watch
• Merry Tales
• Life on the Mississippi
• Letters from Hawaii
• King Leopold's Soliloquy
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• A Tramp Abroad
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Tom Sawyer, Detective
• The Prince and the Pauper
• The Mysterious Stranger and other stories
• The Innocents Abroad
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• The Awful German Language
• The American Claimant
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
• Sketches New and Old
• Running for Governor
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Old Times on the Mississippi
• My Platonic Sweetheart
• Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
• Journalism in Tennessee
• How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
• Following the Equator
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
• Eve's Diary
• Concerning the Jews
• Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
• Autobiography of Mark Twain
• A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
• A Horse's Tale
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• A Double Barrelled Detective Story
• A Dog's Tale
• A Burlesque Biography
• About Barbers
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