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Essay Archive - Why Mark Twain is the Greatest American Author of All Time
Why Mark Twain is the Greatest American Author of All Time
In the book Huck Finn, Mark Twain not only writes about the
adventures of a young boy, he depicts the struggle that people had to go
through in that time period. That is just one of the reasons why some
people consider Mark Twain to be the greatest American author of all time.
As I was reading the book Huck Finn I started to agree more with
what Mencken had to say "Put him beside Emerson, or Whitman, or Hawthorne,
or even Poe; he was palpably the superior of all of them". I could really
relate t....
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