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A Century of Mark Twain
van Doren, Mark | October 23, 1935 issue

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The quarter of a century since author Mark Twain's death has done as much as any equivalent period to gives the author people now possess. The first twenty-five years of his life gave him, of course, his best subject matter the Mississippi River, the Valley frontier. The next twenty-five years brought him to the point of understanding this material and embodying it in his two masterpieces, "Life on the Mississippi" and "Huckleberry Finn." Another twenty-five years and he had become the white figure of the legend-eccentric, funny, and upon occasion fierce. But it is only since 1910 that criticism has been busy with him in a serious way, establishing him as an artist and considering him in perspective.

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TWAIN, Mark, 1835-1910; AUTHORS; LITERATURE; LIFE on the Mississippi (Book); HUCKLEBERRY Finn (Book); MISSISSIPPI River
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