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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Yes and yes. I live in Continental Europe and copyright is still life + 70 years here for literary works, published or not. Since Twain died in 1910 his work is in the public domain by now. That might not be true for other jurisdictions, of course.
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You've missed a point in EU law. The first person to publish an unpublished out-of-copyright work in the EU now has a 25-year "publication right". This is under Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993.