Mark Twain

Hartford, Connecticut, USAmarktwain.wroteabout.comWriting since 1867

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Pilot, miner, printer, lecturer. Sailed for the Holy Land in 1867 with sixty pilgrims and came home the only sinner. A test profile in the spirit of The Innocents Abroad (1869).

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  1. FRThe Quaker City excursionJun 1867

    The barber of Paris

    All my life I had dreamed of being shaved in a Parisian palace of art, by a gentle artist, among velvet and mirrors. I was shaved by a man named Henri, with a garden tool.

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