The Mark Twain encyclopedia

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Eccentricities of genius : memories of famous men and women of the platform and stage by Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903

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Athletes and coaches of summer.

Table of Contents: “…Armstrong, Henry (Jackson, Henry, Jr.)…”


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Nineteenth-century American western writers

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The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes

Table of Contents: “…Anne Bradstreet -- Michael Wigglesworth -- Edward Taylor -- Samuel Sewall -- Cotton Mather -- William Byrd -- Jonathan Edwards -- Benjamin Franklin -- Mather Byles -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- Philip Freneau -- Timothy Dwight -- Joel Barlow -- Noah Webster -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Daniel Webster -- Washington Irving -- James Fenimore Cooper -- William Cullen Bryant -- Bronson Alcott -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Abraham Lincoln -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Margaret Fuller -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Horace Greeley -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- Frederick Douglass -- Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- James Russell Lowell -- Emily Dickinson -- Horation Alger, Jr. -- Louisa May Alcott -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Bret Harte -- William Dean Howells -- Henry Adams -- Joaquin Miller -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Sidney Lanier -- William James -- Henry James -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Henry Cabot Lodge -- Booker T. …”


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100 men who shaped world history by Yenne, Bill, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Aquinas -- Marco Polo -- Johann Gutenberg -- Christopher Columbus -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Nicholas Copernicus -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Martin Luther -- Henry VIII -- Galileo Galilei -- William Shakespeare -- Oliver Cromwell -- Isaac Newton -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) -- Benjamin Franklin -- Frederick II (the Great) -- James Cook -- George Washington -- Thomas Jefferson -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig von Beethoven -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- William Clarke and Merriwether Lewis -- Simón Bolívar -- Samuel Morse -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Charles Darwin -- Abraham Lincoln -- William Ewart Gladstone -- Charles Dickens -- Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck -- Jules Verne -- Chief Sitting Bull (Tatankya Iyotake) -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) -- Thomas A. …”


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The book of eulogies : a collection of memorial tributes, poetry, essays, and letters of condolence

Table of Contents: “…Jordan Sr. / Vernon E. Jordan Jr. -- James Baldwin / William Styron -- Arthur Robert Ashe / New York Times editorial staff -- Marian Anderson / New York Times editorial staff -- Chapter 6: A Nation's Dead. …”


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American reformers : an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary

Table of Contents: “…Berger -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- John Bigelow -- James G. Birney -- James Black -- Alice Blackwell -- Antoinette Blackwell -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Emily Blackwell -- Harriot Stanton Blatch -- William Bliss -- Amelia Bloomer -- Ella ("Mother Bloor") Bloor -- Inez Boissevain -- Edward Bok -- Charles Joseph Bonaparte -- Mary Bonney -- Gertrude Bonnin -- Maud Booth -- Henry Ingersoll Bowditch -- Charles Brace -- Myra Bradwell -- Louis D. …”


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