... a new national literature, which reflected and realized a still emerging country. Mark Twain isn't just a writer; he's a symbol of America. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American literature. He was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri and died in 1910 in Redding, Connecticut ... he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan says, "In plotting a book his structural sense was weak; intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and to...

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