Both Uses of
Mark Twain
in
Main Street
- He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right alongside of Mark Twain.†
Chpt 14 *
- Carol's small town thinks not in hoss-swapping but in cheap motor cars, telephones, ready-made clothes, silos, alfalfa, kodaks, phonographs, leather-upholstered Morris chairs, bridge-prizes, oil-stocks, motion-pictures, land-deals, unread sets of Mark Twain, and a chaste version of national politics.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(Mark Twain) U.S. writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)editor's notes: Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens.