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    The Writings of Mark Twain
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    Life on the Mississippi
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    A tramp abroad
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    The writings of Henry David Thoreau
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Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Mark Twain, 65 books
Henry David Thoreau, 61 books
Henry James, Jr., 32 books
Henry Miller, 30 books
H. L. Mencken, 24 books
Jill C. Wheeler, 21 books
Maya Angelou, 21 books
Anaïs Nin, 20 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 15 books
Washington Irving, 14 books
Van Wyck Brooks, 14 books
Ernest Hemingway, 13 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 13 books
Gary Paulsen, 13 books
Stuart, Jesse, 12 books
Sherwood Anderson, 12 books
May Sarton, 12 books
Lawrence Clark Powell, 12 books
Malcolm Cowley, 11 books
Lafcadio Hearn, 11 books
Edmund Wilson, 10 books
Tomie de Paola, 10 books
Julien Green, 10 books
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 9 books
Edith Wharton, 9 books

Prominent Publishers

who have published the most books on this subject
Folcroft Library Editions, 91 editions
Houghton Mifflin, 91 editions
Random House, 88 editions
Penguin Books, 79 editions
Doubleday, 76 editions
Greenwood Press, 73 editions
Norwood Editions, 73 editions
University Press of Mississippi, 68 editions
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 66 editions
Tandem Library, 65 editions
Harper & Row, 59 editions
Knopf, 57 editions
Little, Brown, 56 editions
AMS Press, 52 editions
Scribner, 52 editions
R. West, 49 editions
University of Nebraska Press, 49 editions
HarperCollins, 48 editions
Oxford University Press, 48 editions
Chelsea House, 47 editions

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