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Mark Twain Memoirs Unsealed After 100 Years

The last wish of one of America's greatest authors is about to come true: Mark Twain's biography will hit stories 100 years after his death.

According to a report by The Independent, the late novelist, whose works include "Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," left behind 5,000 pages of unedited text that will be turned into a three-volume trilogy running about half a million words.

Intrigue, humor, politics, philosophy and an early 20th-century electric sex toy. It's all there in there within the pages of this series.

But don't bother waiting lining up just yet to buy your copy. Twain's autobiography doesn't hit store shelves until November.

Read entire article at Discovery News