They [the Concord, Mass. Library] have expelled Huck from t… - Mark Twain

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They [the Concord, Mass. Library] have expelled Huck from their library as “trash and suitable only for the slums.” That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Pen Names: Sieur Louis de Conte • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass • J. W. Bothwell

Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Louis de Conte

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