Mark Twain And The Lost Manuscript Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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Outline
Thesis Statement: An original draft of Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn exists containing material excluded from the first
printing of the book.
I. Twain's biographical information
A. Childhood
B. Education
C. Professional life
1. Jobs
2. Literary works
3. ....
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1847, when Clemens was twelve his father died. Clemens grew up in an
educated family (Works of Twain: Biographical Sketch). At age twelve he
was apprenticed to a printer and at age sixteen he worked under his brother,
Orion who was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. Clemens made an early
attempt at writing by sending comical travel letters to the Keokuk Saturday
Post in Iowa under the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. These letters
contained purposely inserted errors typ ....
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