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Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), US novelist and humorist, who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), as well as the ultimate examination of class from a historical perspective: The Prince and the Pauper (1882). When Twain visited Britain, he saw how undemocratic class distinctions could be. Instead of seeing ‘good breeding’ as something innate to the upper classes, he saw it as something that individuals could control through their own efforts.
