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A thread dedicated to /ourguy/ Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, the pinnacle of American /lit/.

What's your favourite book of his?

Mine is Connyank.

>> No.16206768

>/lit/ doesn't want to discuss actual good authors.
Wow, fucking cringe.

>> No.16206779

>>16206449
Go back to redd*t retard

>> No.16206781

>>16206449
Puddnhead Wilson is mine. His dry humor and plotting shines in it.

>> No.16207001

>>16206779
Kill yourself.

>> No.16207332

>>16206449
My fiance loves conn yank too, I'm reading Huck Finn right now and am enjoying it

>> No.16207763

>>16206781
I started reading Pudd'nhead a while back but never got a chance to finish it, but I remember it being quite witty. I should return to it sometime

>> No.16207812

>>16206449
Anybody here read his three volume biography?
Reviews are mixed

>> No.16209077

>>16207812
give it a read my dude

>> No.16209103

>tfw my GF is from Calaveras county and they still jump frogs to this day

>> No.16209302

>>16209077
Thanks for the ringing endorsement

>> No.16209644

>>16206449
Is this the cuck who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? I was forced to read that shit in school a long time ago. Dude clearly had a hardon for underage ebony girls.

>> No.16209735

>>16209644
no that was Harriet Beecher Stowe

>> No.16209757

>>16206449
Anyone listen to The Dead Author's Podcast with Paul F. Tompkins? The episode for Mark Twain is great.
I've only read Huck Finn. I enjoyed it quite a bit, even the ending.

>> No.16210301

Bump, ffs

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>>16206449
Was clemens a nudist? I thought I had read somewhere that he was. I myself am a nudist, and need more than john muir to explain my lifestyle decisions to my parents. Hang free and don't shave the pubes my fellow ozarkfrens...

>> No.16210539

>>16210495
I dont believe he was, but then again, I don't actively research the private lives of authors.

>> No.16210992

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

otherwise hes trash

>> No.16211000

>>16209735
was still a cuck