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Among the more than a dozen different English translation of Heinrich Hoffmann´s Struwwelpeter, Mark Twain´s free rendering is certainly the most original. And among the many translators of the timeless children´s classic into over 100 languages and dialects, the American writer is no doubt the most prominent ... In her "Foreword" to the first publication of her father´s Struwwelpeter Mark Twain´s daughter Clara Clemens wrote: "Certain books, like certain people, impart a flavor of enjoyment regardless of time. Struwwelpeter has this deathless flavor." The same can surely be said of Mark Twain´s translation (Walter Sauer)

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