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The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Paracosms: Know Your Fiction by Arthur McMahon

Jun 12, 201700:22:12TV & Film

Some authors live to write, and some write to live. Others fall somewhere in between, and a few just seem to fall into it. Mark Twain, author of multiple Great American Novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ,...

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The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an episode from Paracosms: Know Your Fiction by Arthur McMahon. Some authors live to write, and some write to live. Others fall somewhere in between, and a few just seem to fall into it. Mark Twain, a...

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Some authors live to write, and some write to live. Others fall somewhere in between, and a few just seem to fall into it. Mark Twain, author of multiple Great American Novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , encapsulates all of those traits, yet somehow also exists outside of them, or, perhaps, above them. In this episode we will learn how Mark Twain’s legendary career as an author began from the man himself. I am Arthur McMahon and this is Paracosms. Now known as one of America’s greatest novelists, Mark Twain came from humble beginnings, and he lived quite an adventurous life before finding his success. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain was raised in Missouri where he learned to pilot steamboats on the Mississippi River. At a young age, Twain lost his father to pneumonia. Several of his siblings passed away before they had reached

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Published Jun 12, 2017 and 00:22:12 long