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When Mark Twain Nearly Changed His Literary Career

Here’s a first person account of Mark Twain’s reaction to a bad review.

WHEN MARK TWAIN NEARLY CHANGED HIS LITERARY CAREER: A Disappointment That Incidentally Gave Him a Lifelong Yearning to Kill a Critic. (PDF)

From July 30, 1911

David Friedman

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