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And they disliked the way Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Mark Twain was already a successful writer before he became famous as a public speaker.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Twain also traveled a lot and began writing books about his travels.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.

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Mark Twain was a pretty good stock pundit, which is why I named one of my thrillers The Twain Maxim after him.

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Mark Twain has a hundred and fifty-three quotations, Oscar Wilde a hundred and twenty-three.

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