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11-17-04
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Other Works by Mark Twain
I read The First Writing-Machines from the unpublished autobiograph Mark
Twain wrote. I thought it was very good and also interesting. He wrote about
the very first type-machines. He said that when they first came out he was
amazed by them and especially by the woman that could type fifty-seven words
in a minute. The salesman that was selling them said that the type-machine was
a curiosity and any person who owned them is also a curiosity. He was so
interested in it that he actually bought one. After he brought it home, he
ended up writing a letter to a boy named Edward Bok. He wrote The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer and he was the first person in the world to apply the type-
machine to literature. After a while he gave away his type-machine because he
thought it was degrading to his character. The man he gave it to ended up
giving it back, so it gave it away again and it continued. In the end no one
wanted it. I think he is a very good writer. In this story he wrote, he
describes everything in detail. I enjoy books a lot more when authors do
that . It helps me picture in my head what is going on in the story. This
story he wrote is also very interesting to me because I like to read about
things in the past. I also like to read true stories although most of Mark
Twain�s writings are fiction, I like the non-fiction better. But over all, I
think it was a good story.