The American Claimant

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Charles L. Webster, 1892 - Fiction - 277 pages
The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.
 

Contents

I
17
II
26
III
36
IV
50
V
57
VI
66
VII
71
VIII
77
XIV
143
XV
153
XVI
162
XVII
171
XVIII
182
XIX
192
XX
201
XXI
209

IX
84
X
94
XI
104
XII
118
XIII
130
XXII
225
XXIII
236
XXIV
249
XXV
262
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About the author (1892)

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

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