Mark Twain T-shirt Just Added

Our new Mark Twain t-shirt is now in our Zazzle store. Twain, the pseudonym for Samuel Clemens, was one of America's truly great writers. Born in Florida, Missouri in 1835 and raised in Hannibal, he worked as a typesetter and a printer while educating himself in public libraries in the evening. He also worked as a steamboat captain, a very lucrative job, for a couple of years before the Civil War broke out and he headed west.

Although he started out writing mostly travelogues and humor, his most famous work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, took a darker twist, commenting on the hypocrisies of American life. Huck is often faced with choices between doing what he thinks is right and what society thinks is right. When wondering if he should turn in his friend, Jim, a runaway slave, he thinks long and hard before deciding not to do it. "All right, then, I'll go to hell", he says to himself. This phrase is the basis of our Huck Finn shirt.

We hope you like them as much as we do.