Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, is one of the giants of American literature. Twain authored over thirty works including the classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
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The Walt Whitman Controversy
Mark Twain
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The first page of the original manuscript of “The Walt Whitman Controversy” in Twain’s handwriting. Used with the permission of the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library.