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	1601 (Mark Twain) Biography and Summary
		Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult.
		Mark Twain is the best-known and most-beloved American writer in the world, and his stature as the quintessential American writer rests in large part upon his "westernness." Born at the edge of the frontier, schooled along the great divide between East a...
		Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, often bitterly, the roots of human behavior.
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	Mark Twain - Biography and Works
		Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on 30 November 1835, the sixth child born to Jane Lampton (1803-1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798-1847).
		To ‘mark twain’ is to sound the depths and deem them safe for passage, the term adopted by Clemens as his pen name in 1863.
		Mark Twain died on 21 April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut and now rests in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Livy’s hometown of Elmira, New York State, buried beside her and the children.
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	1601 (Mark Twain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		or simply 1601 is the title of a humorous work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally claimed by Twain in 1906.
		Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth's servants, 1601 was, according to Edward Wagenknecht, "the most famous piece of pornography in American literature." It was more ribaldry than pornography, however; its content was more in the nature of irreverent and vulgar comedic shock than of "obscene" erotica.
		Nevertheless, in the United States, prior to the court decisions (1959-1966) that legalized the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill, the book continued to be considered unprintable, and circulated clandestinely in privately-printed, limited editions.
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	Mark Twain - 1601 Page 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mark Twain's irreverence should not be misinterpreted: it was an irreverence which bubbled up from a deep, passionate insight into the well-springs of human nature.
		Every word used in 1601 was used by our own rude pioneers as a part of their vocabulary--and no word was ever invented by man with obscene intent, but only as language to express his meaning.
		Mark Twain made of 1601 a very smart and fascinating performance, carried over almost to grotesqueness just to show it was not done for mere delight in the frank naturalism of the functions with which it deals.
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	Mark Twain - 1601 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.] 'Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.' For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed.
		The circumstances of how 1601 came to be written have since been officially revealed by Albert Bigelow Paine in 'Mark Twain, A Bibliography' (1912), and in the publication of Mark Twain's Notebook (1935).
		1601 was written during the summer of 1876 when the Clemens family had retreated to Quarry Farm in Elmira County, New York.
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	Mark Twain - 1601 - INTRODUCTION
		Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies.
		In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the "bad boy" of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy.
		Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark's make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world.
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	Mark Twain
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri, of a Virginian family.
		Twain had abandoned the work in 1874, but returned to it in the following summer and even then was undecided if he were writing a book for adults or for young readers.
		In Philip José Farmer's Riverworld epic Mark Twain was one of the central characters.
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	Mark Twain -- The Licensed Jester - Essay by George Orwell
		Mark Twain -- The Licensed Jester - Essay by George Orwell
		Twain is not consciously writing a hymn to liberty.
		Mark Twain, except perhaps in one short essay
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	Mark Twain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, to John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens.
		Mark Twain was opposed to vivisection of any kind, not on a scientific basis, but rather an ethical one, in which he states that no sentient being should be made to suffer for another without consent.
		Mark Twain in his gown (scarlet with grey sleeves and facings) for his DLitt degree, awarded to him by Oxford University.
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	Mark Twain -- All Books
		Mark Twain's witty, caustic attack on Christian Science and its founder Mary Baker Eddy came about as a result of his fear in 1898, that Christian Science would spread so rapidly, it would control Congress by the 1930s.
		Mark Twain spent years of research to present Joan of Arc's unique place in history from both the French and the English points of view.
		This illustrated edition of Twain's classic tale is in three parts: the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation "to the English after martyrdom in the French." 15 original woodcut engravings.
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	Amazon.com: 1601 And Is Shakespeare Dead? (Mark Twain Works): Books: Mark Twain,Leslie A. Fiedler,Erica Jong,Shelley ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one
		"1601" is an lewd and raunchy imaginary conversation at the court of Elizabeth I. The narrator is disgusted by what he has heard -- the author partly shares the disgust and partly is fascinated with the fact that raunchy talk was not always taboo.
		Twain tells it from the point of view of the Cup Bearer to Queen Elizabeth I, a man who is totally disgusted to see Her Majesty sitting around speaking crudities with such personages as William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh.
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	1601 (Mark Twain)
		1601 (Mark Twain) is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		1601 (Mark Twain): Encyclopedia II - 1000 number - Trivia
		To count to one thousand, counting one number every second continuously would take 16 minutes and 40 seconds.
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	Mark Twain -- Out of Print Books
		Although not a pacifist, Twain was the most prominent opponent of the Philippine-American War and served as vice president of the Anti-Imperial League from 1901 to 1910.
		Written as a personal memoir by her secretary and companion, Mark Twain's story of Joan of Arc follows the experiences of an inspired peasant girl who led a beleaguered France from victory to victory.
		Based on Mark Twain's own years of "variegated vagabonding" in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geographyeven statistics.
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	Mark Twain
		The Study was built for Mark Twain by Susan and Theodore Crane in 1874, so that the author would have a place to write undisturbed.
		Mark Twain on the Philippines from Syracuse, NY Essays by and about Mark Twain, several other unusual articles.
		Mark Twain Early Writings This is an ad for a book titled Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings.
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	1601 by Mark Twain - Full Text Free Book
		Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his
		Mark Twain's irreverence should not be misinterpreted: it was an
		Mark's vocabulary ran the whole gamut of life itself.
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	1601 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		For the Mark Twain work, see 1601 (Mark Twain).
		April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (born 1562)
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1601 contains research on
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	1601 eBooks - Mark Twain - Visit eBookMall Today!
		"1601" was written by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) originally published privately for a small group of friends.
		This book is a humorous satire of Elizabethan England, probably scandalous at the time of its release it is almost pornographic in nature.
		The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year.
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