Mark Twain wrote more than `Huck' and `Tom'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020130
Author:Cochrum, Alan

You don't know Mark Twain without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," or mebbe "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Mr. Twain he ain't written many books lately, mostly on account of him bein' dead, but the folks up at the Liberry of America decided to parcel together some of his "old" books so's the rest of us could know what else he wrote. I reckon they got some money in trust in there somers, too, but I never knowed anybody what didn't like to make two bits now and agin.

Anyhow, the first book in the parcel is named "The Gilded Age," which ...

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