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Epitaph Twain Wrote Over His Wife's Grave Reveals Twain Legacy
The obituary celebrates Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain, praising his universal genius as humorist, essayist, novelist and poet. It traces his origins in Florida Missouri and Hannibal, his river life on the Mississippi, early printing work, stage and press tours, and rise to fame with The Innocents Abroad and Tom Sawyer amid his storms and successes.
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Semuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain
Victor Hugo
Moliere
Cervantes
Mississippi
Joan of Arc
Samuel L. Clemens
Alexander
Frank R. Breckton
Adam
Noah
Spain
Delmonico’s
Florida
Clemens
Tennessee
Mr. Clemens
Charles Dudley Warner
John Marshall Clemens
Old
Virginia
Miss Langhorne
Squire Hawkins
Adair
Missouri
Mississippi River
Hannibal
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Sam
Sandusky
Ohio
New York
Philadelphia
Lisbon
Cincinnati
Ohio River
St. Louis
Bixby
Paul Jones
Central America
Will M. Clemens
Hern
Whitlikens
Marion Rangers
West
Orren Clemens
James W. Nye
Lincoln
Nevada
Samuel Clemens
Carson City
Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Enterprise
Pacific
Washington
Pacific Coast
Europe
Holy Land
Alta California
San Francisco
Dickens
Joe
Prince and Pauper
Childess
Olivia Clemens
Earth
Brander Matthews
Department of Literature
Columbia University
Franklin
Emerson
Hawthorne
Huck Finn
United States
Colonel Sellers
Hadleyburg
Marl Twain
Eéngland
Chaucer
Fielding
Swift
France
LeSage
Germany
Don Quixote
God