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...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...succeeded. Published by Mark Twain's firm, Grant's memoirs became a runaway bestseller, eventually netted his widow $450,000-one of the highest royalty figures that any one book had ever earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The General's Notes | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Made public, through a White House announcement, the titles of his favorite books: the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Magnolia Time | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...million thanks for publishing "It Happened One Night." To my mind, Mark Twain and George Ade in collaboration could have written nothing wittier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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