Twain, Mark

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1. The nom de plume of Samuel L. Clemens, an American author and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is famous for his stories with settings along the Mississippi River; his books include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and The Prince and the Pauper.

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Twain, who was once a steamboat pilot, took his pen name from a term used in river navigation meaning “two fathoms deep.”

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“Mark twain” – mark two, a depth of 12ft, safe water – was the leadsman’s cry and it has inspired no end of psychobabble about the significance of “the most recognised alias in the history of aliases”.

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Twain, Mark, 1, 333, 341, 342, 2, 264.

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Tchekhov, 303 Tempest, Marie, 219, 252, 301 Temps, Le, 18 Terence, 302 Terry, Ellen, 301 Tetrazzini, Luisa, 102, 160 Thèbes, Mme. de, 79 Thomas, Ambroise, 173 Thomas, Augustus, 235, 236, 295 Thomas, Olive, 223 Thomas, Theodore, 155 Tiberius, 69 Tichatschek, Joseph Aloys, 164 Tilzer, Harry von, 202 Tinney, Frank, 222 Tissot, 67 Toscanini, Arturo, 156 Tradition, 24, 97, 281 Troubetskoy, Prince, 157 Tschaikovsky, 59, 312 Turgeniev, 187, 252 Twain, Mark, 261, 265 Urban, Joseph, 222, 223 Vagaries of genius, 55 Vallière, Louise, de la, 13 Valverde, Joaquín, 284 et seq.

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Twain, Mark: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two stories whose fun every boy will appreciate.

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Train, George Francis, 261-2 "Traveler at Forty, A.," 76,82,105,125,127 Truth, Dreiser on, 126 Twain, Mark, 15,17,30,90,131-2,133,143,151,202,203-4,217,222 "Typhoon," 12,47,50,53   "Under Western Eyes," 36,42,47,48,49,56,59   "Victory," 13,33,42,48,55,56 "Visionaries," 188 et seq.

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