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The American Claimant
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Mark Twain's comic novel follows Colonel Mulberry Sellers, an eccentric American inventor who claims to be the rightful heir to an English earldom, satirizing class, aristocracy, and democracy. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American literature and Twain's social satire.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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