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Twain, Mark
     
Twain, Mark
(1835-1910) a US writer best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and for his descriptions of life on the Mississippi River. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
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