The Making of Mark Twain tells of his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, of his mastering the printer's craft and his first crude experiments in humor, of his wanderings as an eighteen-year-old journeyman printer, of his four years of piloting on the Mississippi River at the height of the steamboat era, of his absurd adventures as an amateur Confederate soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, and…
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