Great Britain: Penguin 60's Classsics, 1995. Paperback. some foxing to edges 60.pp(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Paperback.

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Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and raised in nearby Hannibal. After apprenticing as a printer, he left home at 18 to travel the world. He returned to captain a Mississippi riverboat for four years, then headed west on a stage coach, filing absurdist travel stories for newspapers along the way—using a river boater's warning for shallow waters as his pen-name. Chased out of San Francisco after reporting on the police chief, he hid in a mining town and overheard a yarn he turned into a successful story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". But true fame came with his 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . It's sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , is considered one of the world's great masterpieces. In demand, Twain wrote prolifically and lectured far and wide. He also founded a publishing house, publishing the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. But when an investment in an early typewriter failed, he fled the U.S. for Europe—a trip that saw the death of his daughter. His wife died soon thereafter. Twain overcame his financial troubles, but not the loss of his loved ones, and his last writings were dark works stretching beyond his homespun narrative to fantasy, science fiction, and scathing political commentary. He died in 1910.

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Bookseller: thelondonbookworm.com (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 032868
Title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Author: Twain, Mark
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
ISBN 10: 0146001869
ISBN 13: 9780146001864
Publisher: Penguin 60's Classsics
Place of Publication: Great Britain
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: Fiction General
Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall

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