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Misto C at one point restates his initial question, “[H]ow is it that you’ve never had any trouble?” (591), reframing it as, “[Y]ou can’t have had any trouble?” (591). What about Aunt Rachel makes Misto C doubt his first assumption?
Mark Twain offers few details on Misto C and his family. With family a major note of Aunt Rachel’s story, why might Twain omit details of Misto C’s own family?
Ernest Hemingway famously said that all American literature comes from one book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Written nearly 20 years prior to that novel, “A True Story” features a similar setting and voice. What details of this story feel distinctly American and a precursor to Twain’s most famous work?
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Letters from the Earth
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Life on the Mississippi
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Roughing It
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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The Invalid's Story
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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The Mysterious Stranger
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The Prince and the Pauper
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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The War Prayer
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