Pejman Yousefzadeh · Maud Newton: The dispatch that launched Mark Twain's career

December 1st, 2012

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Maud Newton: The dispatch that launched Mark Twain's career

In honor of Mark Twain’s birthday, assuming you’ve already read his biography of Satan, I recommend taking a look at the original version of “43 Days in an Open Boat,” his 1866 Sacramento Daily Union piece about “a boat containing fifteen men, in a helpless and starving condition,”…

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