Who Is Mark Twain?

by Mark Twain

Roughing It

  The Gilded Age

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  A Tramp Abroad

  The Prince and the Pauper

  Life on the Mississippi

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

  The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

  Following the Equator

  Copyright

  WHO IS MARK TWAIN? Copyright © 2009, 2010 by the Mark Twain Foundation. Texts by Mark Twain copyright © 2001 by the Mark Twain Foundation. Transcription, reconstruction, and emendation of the texts copyright © 2001, 2009, and 2010 by The Regents of the University of California. First published in 2001 by University of California Press under a license from the Mark Twain Foundation. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  The Mark Twain Foundation expressly reserves to itself, its successors and assigns, all dramatization rights in every medium, including without limitation, stage, radio, television, motion picture, and public reading rights.

  We are grateful to Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries, for access to the original manuscripts of “The Devil’s Gate” and “I Rise to a Question of Privilege.”

  First HarperStudio trade paperback edition published 2010.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Twain, Mark, 1835–1910.

  Who is Mark Twain? / by Mark Twain.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-06-173501-1 (pbk.)

  1. Twain, Mark, 1835–1910. 2. Authors, American—19th century—Biography. I. Title.

  PS1331.A2 2010b

  818’.409—dc22

  [B]

  2010001430

  EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-202085-7

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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