Samuel Langhorne Clemens, noto maggiormente con lo pseudonimo di Mark Twain, nacque il 30 novembre 1835 in Missouri. Dopo la morte del padre all'età di undici anni, Twain abbandonò la scuola per sostenere economicamente la sua famiglia, lavorando come stampatore e compositore e contribuendo ad articoli per il giornale del fratello Orion. La sua vita avventurosa lo portò a diventare un abile pilota di battelli a vapore sul fiume Mississippi, a tentare la fortuna nell'estrazione dell'oro in California e a viaggiare in Sud America alla ricerca di una fortuna.
La carriera letteraria di Twain decollò durante il suo periodo come giornalista, quando scrisse "La rana saltatrice celebre della Contea di Calaveras", che gli valse l'attenzione nazionale. Adottò lo pseudonimo Mark Twain, derivato dall'urlo dei battelli a vapore che indicavano due braccia d'acqua, durante la Guerra Civile. Come scrittore di viaggi, Twain acquisì fama per il suo umorismo e la sua satira, guadagnandosi elogi da critici, coetanei e figure importanti come presidenti, artisti ed aristocrazia europea.
Twain è noto principalmente per i suoi romanzi Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn (1885) e Le avventure di Tom Sawyer (1876), con il primo spesso indicato come "il Grande Romanzo Americano". La sua scrittura, ispirata dalle sue esperienze infantili, creò personaggi duraturi che colpirono i lettori in tutto il mondo. Nonostante il suo successo, Twain lottò finanziariamente a causa di cattivi investimenti, tra cui il Compositore Paige. dichiarò bancarotta ma alla fine superò le sue difficoltà finanziarie con l'aiuto di Henry Huttleston Rogers.
La connessione di Twain con il cosmo è notevole, poiché nacque quando la cometa di Halley stava passando dalla Terra e morì al suo ritorno nel 1910. È spesso considerato il "maggior umorista americano della sua epoca" e "il padre della letteratura americana". La sua eredità continua ad influenzare la letteratura moderna, con Ernest Hemingway che afferma che "tutta la letteratura moderna deriva da questo unico libro", riferendosi a Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn. La vita e l'opera di Twain rimangono una testimonianza del suo spirito avventuroso, abilità osservative e abilità narrative.
Autobiography Of Mark Twain Books
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
1925
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
1925
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
1925
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Books
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
1884
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
1894
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
1896
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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians and Other Unfinished Stories
1989
Diaries Of Adam and Eve Books
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Extracts from Adam's Diary
1904
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Eve's Diary
1906
Romanzi singoli
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The Gilded Age
1873
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A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage
1876
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The Prince and the Pauper
1881
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1889
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The American Claimant
1892
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
1893
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
1896
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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
1902
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A Dog's Tale
1904
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King Leopold's Soliloquy
1905
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A Horse's Tale
1907
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The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
1928
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The Adventures of Colonel Sellers
1965
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Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
2008
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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The Jumping Frog
1865
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1893
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The Mysterious Stranger
1916
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Bakers Bluejay Yarn
1986
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The Stolen White Elephant
2017
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The Invalid's Story
2019
Raccolte di racconti
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories
1867
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Advice to Little Girls and Other Stories
1867
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Eye Openers
1871
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Screamers
1871
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Mark Twain's Sketches
1872
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Sketches New and Old
1875
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The Stolen White Elephant
1882
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Merry Tales
1892
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The 1,000,000 Pound Bank-Note, and Other New Stories
1893
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
1900
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Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
1904
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Punch, Brothers, Punch
1989
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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
1906
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
1916
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The Devil's Race-Track
2005
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Who Is Mark Twain?
2009
Collezioni
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Punch, Brothers, Punch
1989
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Helpful Hints for Good Living
1991
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The Humor of Twain
1999
Libri di non-fiction
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Mark Twain's Letters From Hawaii
1866
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The Innocents Abroad
1869
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The Innocents at Home
1869
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography; and, First Romance
1871
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Roughing It
1872
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The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
1880
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A Tramp Abroad
1880
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On the Decay of the Art of Lying
1880
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Life on the Mississippi
1883
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
1897
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Following the Equator
1897
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English as She is Taught
1900
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What is Man? and Other Essays
1906
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My Debut as a Literary Person
1906
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Christian Science
1907
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Is Shakespeare Dead?
1909
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Mark Twain's Speeches
1910
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Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews
2006
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Mark Twain on Religion
1970
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The Bible According to Mark Twain
1995
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Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (With: Gary Scharnhorst)
2006
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Letters from the Earth
2009
The Year of the Cat Books
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A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
2020
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A Cat of a Different Color
2020
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A Cat of Perfect Taste
2020
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A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
2020
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A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
2020
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A Cat of Disdainful Looks
2020
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A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
2020
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A Cat of Strange Lands
2020
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A Cat of Cozy Situations
2020
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A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ed Gorman, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dean Wesley Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Mary A. Turzillo, Dory Crowe)
2020
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A Cat of Heroic Heart
2020
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A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
2020
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A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities
2021
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A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Joan Aiken, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
2021
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A Cat of Feral Instincts
2021
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A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
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A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
2021
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A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
2021
Oxford Bookworms: Stage 1 Books
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The Elephant Man (By: Tim Vicary)
1983
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The Phantom of the Opera ( By: Tricia Hedge)
1999
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The Phantom of the Opera ( By: Jennifer Bassett)
1999
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Pocahontas (By: Tim Vicary)
2000
History Highlights Books
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The Louisiana Purchase (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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The Oregon Trail (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Book 1 (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Book 2 (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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The Civil War Anaconda Plan (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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The Mississippi River (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2020
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Mark Twain and the Mississippi River (With: Bill Wiemuth)
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The Statue of Liberty (By: Bill Wiemuth)
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The Astorians (By: Bill Wiemuth)
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Steamboats Changed America (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2023
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Alaska History Highlights (By: Bill Wiemuth, Laura Sable)
2023
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The Steamboat “Delta Queen” (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2023
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Invaded (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2024
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Explore Alaska with John Muir (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2024
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Florida History Highlights (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2024
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The Pathway to Civil War (By: Bill Wiemuth)
2025
Mark Twain Anthologies
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Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of the Atlantic
1947
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50 Great American Short Stories
1963
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21 Great Stories
1969
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Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls
1985
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Unknown California
1985
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Famous and Curious Animal Stories
1989
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Great Baseball Stories
1990
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Spells of Enchantment
1991
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Prose and Poetry of the American West
1991
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The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror
1992
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100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
1993
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The Screaming Skull
1994
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Writing New York
1998
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The Best of Jim Baen's Universe
2007
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San Francisco Noir 2
2009
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50 Classic Novellas
2011
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Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed
2011
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A Cairo Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Travel Writing
2013
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Citing Atheists: Quotes of Agnosticism, Non-Theism, Skepticism, Irreligion, Free Thought, and Philosophy
2015
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The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories
2015
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Favorite Love Stories
2017
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The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes
2017
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Living to Tell the Horrid Tales
2017
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The Driftless Reader
2017
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Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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Animals We Love
2019
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American Midnight
2019
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30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories
2019
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A Cat of Disdainful Looks
2020
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Classic Cat Stories
2020
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The Anthology of the Greatest Sci-Fi Classics
2022
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Slavery Exposed: The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels