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Mark Twain
Gilded Age America
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American author and humorist, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, whose novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn captured the voice and conscience of the American frontier. A former riverboat pilot, printer, and prospector, he was the great satirist of the Gilded Age and one of America's most celebrated wits.
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Drawling frontier humor; deadpan exaggeration, tall tales, and sly satire; folksy vernacular that hides a sharp moral edge; jabs at hypocrisy, humbug, and 'the damned human race'; warm storytelling that lands a punchline or a stinging truth.
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