I LOVE Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs Court, etc...
I consider him one the the greatest classic novelists.
What do you think? What's you favorite story/novel etc....
Tom Sawyer helped me gain perspective in my childhood.....
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Tried Prince and the Pauper, and could not get into it, but Connecticut Yankee was good - depressing, to be sure, but good. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were a lot of fun. I've been meaning to read some of his short stories, but as usual can barely keep up with my schoolwork, let alone outside reading.
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I enjoyed both Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberyy Finn and argee with popualr opinion that the latter is by far the superior work. I, however, don't care for the other well known works by Twain (not that I think they are not quality, I just don't think of them as anything exceptional).
I really did like Letters from the Earth whic was published after Twain's death, a very controversial effort i nthe format of eltters from Satan to Gabriel.
I also liked Schoolhouse Hill which invovles a atory with Satan/Huck/and Tom Sawyer a revision and part of his unfinished (by him) The Mysterious Stranger .
I really did like Letters from the Earth whic was published after Twain's death, a very controversial effort i nthe format of eltters from Satan to Gabriel.
I also liked Schoolhouse Hill which invovles a atory with Satan/Huck/and Tom Sawyer a revision and part of his unfinished (by him) The Mysterious Stranger .
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