The American Claimant Annotated

<b>The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain.</b><br> <br> Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author according to Twain himself to do so.<br> This was also according to Twain an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature although the first sentence of the second paragraph references weather fine, breezy morning. Indeed,<br> All the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.<br>