Samual Langhorne Clemens

Title: Samual Langhorne Clemens
Category: Literature / English
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Samual Langhorne Clemens

I. Biography         Samual Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835, and died in 1910. Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work, and boy did he find it. Before his father's death Clemens was apprenticed to his brother Orion, who ran the Missouri Courier, which was a …showed first 75 words of 981 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 981 total…to have prior knowledge of the topic which provides for a very vivid and imaginistic scene in all of his stories. There is only one thing about Twain's writing that can be considered abnormal or unprofessional. That is the excessive use of slang in his stories, even though it fits with the story, it is just about his only flaw in writing. Twain's writing will always be considered brilliant, in my mind and many others.

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