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"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her introduction. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is the 1892 novel by the famous American author Mark Twain. The novel is written in a strikingly new fashion, something Twain was not amateur to, in that it does not contain any mention of the weather. All notes on weather are featured in the appendix in... Read Full Overview

"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her charming introduction to this novel. The American Claimant is a comedy... Read Full Overview

This lighthearted farce features an American under the spell of Britain's aristocracy and an English earl equally intrigued by American democracy. While eccentric inventor Colonel Mulberry Sellers attempts to pursue his claim to the earldom of Rossmore, the rightful heir determines... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is a novel written by the renowned American author, Mark Twain. It is a satirical work that tells the story of an American named Colonel Mulberry Sellers who believes he is the rightful heir to a British estate. The novel is set in England and follows the... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant' is arguably Mark Twain's finest comic novel, although its reputation remains obscure. It is a surreal and farcical comedy of paradox and mistaken identity...and Twain additionally claimed it to be the only fiction book ever written which doesn't mention... Read Full Overview

The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy.

The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so.This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview