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by pvg 2222 days ago
I think you are massively overestimating the importance of the US in Europe

I'm a European who lives in the US so I somewhat doubt that but it's possible. Mark Twain is a world-famous author and I'd go as far as to say that in many places in Europe he's a more canonical part of children's literature than he is in the US.

Here's an article that touches on some of that specifically for Germany:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-01-10/germans-love-mark-twa...