"During their lifetimes, Sholom Aleichem and Mark Twain were often compared;...some of the earliest of these monologues...might easily have been written by Twain."--Sandee Brawarsky, "New York Times Book Review", 07/05/1998
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"The Prince and The Pauper" features Mark Twain as a crime solving detective along with his good friend and sidekick Rudyard Kipling.
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Hauser's novel is told in the form of an autobiographical reminiscence by Mark Twain.
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"Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig....In fact, the Leatherstocking series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series."
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Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River. As a teenager, he began writing short sketches for his brother's newspaper. When he was older, Clemens became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, a job that ended with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. He continued to work as a newspaper reporter, and in 1863 began signing his articles with the name Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathom more...
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11/30/1835 Missouri, Plains States, Midwestern States, United States,
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hate this book!