Mark Twain: a life. Powers, Ron. New York: Free Press.
Started reading this biography yesterday, and am finding it wonderful. Powers writes with a grand style. A few things have caught my eye, and I am duly keeping notes.
This quote I liked: "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
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