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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography; and, First Romance
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Mark Twain
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Paperback
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46 pages
Published
2009
by bibliolife
(first published 1871)
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The Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain is another nonsensical spoof from one of America’s best 19th Century authors. This short work is split in two parts. The first part is a humorous account of Mark Twain’s conjured ancestry. Sprinkled with absurd names, alias’ and deeds the family tree soon fills with shadowy and undesirable sorts of all shapes and sizes. The second part tells the story of a ludicrously fabricated power struggle in a European Duchy. The intrigue gradually builds to an abru
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
Rating: 2 stars
Review: I knew before reading that it was not a proper autobiography and, even though I appreciate the intention and the general feeling it tried to produce, it was too short and quick for it to make an impression on me.
First Romance
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I liked this short story and, even though right now I feel I would have enjoyed more pages of it, it probably is as good as it can ever be.
Rating: 2 stars
Review: I knew before reading that it was not a proper autobiography and, even though I appreciate the intention and the general feeling it tried to produce, it was too short and quick for it to make an impression on me.
First Romance
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I liked this short story and, even though right now I feel I would have enjoyed more pages of it, it probably is as good as it can ever be.
The fact people are out there who, "don't get it," is proof the story and its writer were ahead of their time to such a degree that we may still not have reached it.
An insulting little read where Twain lies about his history and leaves the reader dangling at the end. The gall! The nerve! Shameless.
Good but a little strange. It took me a while to realize it was a face. That is where the word Burlesque comes in.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
, better known by his pen name
Mark Twain
, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1885), called "the Great American Novel", and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
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Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer . He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
