Excerpt from Europe and Elsewhere, Vol. 29
When the future author was but twelve his father died, and the son had to get his education as best he could. Of actual schooling he got little and Of book learning still less, but life itself is not a bad teacher for a boy who wants to study, and young Clemens did not waste his chances He spent six years in the printing Office Of the little local paper, - for, like not a few others on the list Of American authors that stretches from Benjamin Franklin to William Dean Howells, he began his connection with literature by setting type. As a journeyman printer the lad wandered from town to town and rambled even as far east as New York.
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| ISBN: | 9781333611972 |
| Publication date: | 28th July 2018 |
| Author: | Mark Twain |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 470 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |