Wilkie CollinsI have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most famous for his books Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), and the satirical novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). His works are among the most influential English-language novels of the 19th century.
Source: The Woman In White
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