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Mark Twain is the subject of Time Magazine’s seventh annual Making of America issue; see The Dangerous Mind of Mark Twain for a number of fascinating articles.
Ernest Hemingway said that all of American literature can be traced back to Mark Twain and William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. He has also been called the godfather of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, America’s first super star, and the inventor of the American novel.
Twain packaged attacks on slavery and racism in stories that seemed concerned with other things. His Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been controversial for varying reasons since it was first published; for it’s depiction of the dual personalities forced on slaves, for it’s coarseness, and for its use of the ‘n’ word. Pudd’nhead Wilson uses the classic ‘babies switched at birth’ trope to follow the son of a slave switched with his half brother by the masters’ wife. The views presented are all the more powerful for coming from a man from a slave owning state who fought briefly on the confederate side.
Here are all the Public Domain elements of Time Magazines essential Twain. (some of his other works: all our Twain)
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| Celebrated Jumping Frog |
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| Life On The Mississippi |
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| Roughing It |
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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Set in the mid 1800s before the Civil War, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, drift on their raft down the Mississippi River. As they journey, adventure beckons bringing them closer whilst exposing entrenched values and attitudes as large blemishes on the Southern landscape. Controversial when first published. Paradigm shifting. Regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. Listed as No.5 by Time magazine in its list of “10 Greatest Books of All Time”, January 2007.
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| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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The story of a Missouri boyhood. Sometimes idyllic, sometimes rough and tumble. Schoolyard scrapes, getting lost in a cave, playing pirates on the Mississippi River – Tom Sawyer will rouse feelings of nostalgia for yesteryears. But underneath the childhood innocence lies the harsh adult realities of racism, superstitions, murder and revenge. An American Classic.
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