The death-wafer, 1902.

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The death-wafer, 1902.

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Twain's unpublished play, based on a story related in Thomas Carlyle's "Oliver Cromwell's Letters & Speeches" was later condensed into a magazine article that appeared in Harpers, 1901, titled "Death Disk." Play originally written between 1883 and 1900. This copy, pencilled 1902 on cover label, has a new happy ending changed from the 1901 story version and may be associated with a 1902 production [at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York City?].

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...