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The use of allegory in "Jim Smiley and Hi Jumping Frog"
... of power and knowledge, who was an attorney and known for being an excellent narrator. Webster also served as a senator and secretary of state and confronted many of ... in the south of the United States of America. He spent the first years of his life among ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain
Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
... of work for several weeks before he traveled with his brother Orion to Nevada. Orion had aspirations of becoming Territorial Secretary of ... of the book is altered. Robert Hirst, director of the Mark Twain Project at UC Berkely's Bancroft Library, stated ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain
Mark Twain Bio
... of 1861, at the invitation of his brother, Orion, who had just been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Lured by the infectious hope of ... fairly new state and it was a slave state and his father and uncle both owned slaves. Sam spent most of his time ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain
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