![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Twain the suitor and lover is an unknown by the light of his literary works, since he has curiously little to say about the relation of the sexes, beyond the calf love of Tom Sawyer and Becky, the oblique study of miscegenation in Pudd’tihead Wilson, and a few Rabelaisian trifles never intended for the public. Tom Sawyer and Huckle berry Finn are Sam Clemens’s boyhood Life on the Mississippi his pilot, days Roughing It his fling at mining, which led to his luckier strike in literature The Innocents Abroad, and A Tramp Abroad the rambles in space of an incorrigible American, and A Connecticut Yankee, in time. All his best books are in a manner autobiography. His physical traits - the shock of russet hair frosted by time to pure white, the hawk nose and piercing eye, the white clothes and the Missouri drawl which dominated lecture platforms and after-dinner tables - were as unforgettable as the savor of his personality, its drollery and corrosive wit. ![]() EXCEPT for Lincoln, no nineteenth-century American is more familiar to the world than Mark Twain. ![]()
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