Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
Mark Twain · English
Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871) is an early compilation by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) combining two short pieces:…
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871) is an early compilation by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) combining two short pieces: first, a fake autobiography fabricating the Twain family genealogy from the 11th to 19th century through fictitious ancestors who are each highwaymen, forgers, pirates, or missionaries devoured by their congregations; second, a medieval romance 'A Medieval Romance' set in the Duchy of Brandenburgh, telling of the Klugenstein daughter raised as a male named Conrad for twenty-eight years to secure ducal succession.
Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
Mark Twain · English
Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871) is an early compilation by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) combining two short pieces:…
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Contents BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and herewith tender my history: Ours is a noble old house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity. The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the f
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (1871) is an early compilation by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) combining two short pieces: first, a fake autobiography fabricating the Twain family genealogy from the 11th to 19th century through fictitious ancestors who are each highwaymen, forgers, pirates, or missionaries devoured by their congregations; second, a medieval romance 'A Medieval Romance' set in the Duchy of Brandenburgh, telling of the Klugenstein daughter raised as a male named Conrad for twenty-eight years to secure ducal succession.
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