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American Boy

The Adventures of Mark Twain

by Don Brown
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Our popular image of Mark Twain is of a gruff, gray-haired eccentric, the outspoken literary giant who created enduring novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
But once upon a time, Mark Twain was a boy named Samuel Clemens. His birth on November 30, 1835, coincided with the appearance of Halley's comet, streaking across the sky. A dreamer, a prankster, a lover of great tales, Sam Clemens spent his boyhood years living out adventures on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.

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  • Release date

    May 22, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780547767031

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780547767031
      • File size: 20561 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 22, 2003
      With his usual solid research and pen-and-ink and watercolor wash accompaniment, Don Brown examines the young life of Samuel Clemens in American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain. The author examines the boy's rebellious nature and the adventures that found their way into his books (the character of Huck Finn, for instance, was based on Sam's friend Tom, who was "ignorant, unwashed, and insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as any boy had," according to Sam); Brown also tells how Sam adopted his pen name from a term used by a steamboat crew to indicate the water's depth.

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  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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