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Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
The book is remarkable for two reasons—it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. The novel gave the era its nickname: the period of U.S. history from the 1870s to about 1900 is now referred to as the Gilded Age .
In 1900 and again in 1908, Twain stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best". [191] [192] Those who knew Twain well late in life recount that he dwelt on the subject of the afterlife, his daughter Clara saying: "Sometimes he believed death ended everything, but most of the time he felt sure of a life beyond." [193]
While reading a book of Mark Twain anecdotes, he once found a paragraph in which Twain proved it would be possible for a man to become his own grandfather. ("Very Closely Related" appears on page 87 of Wit and Humor of the Age, [1] which was co-authored by Mark Twain in 1883.) In 1947, Latham and Jaffe expanded the idea into a song, which ...
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) [1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following: How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895). In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894). Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ...
Mark Wahlberg says he is not afraid of old age and is embracing taking on older roles. While on the set of his new Apple TV+ film, The Family Plan, Wahlberg, 52, said that while he believes other ...
The novel rose to fame when The New York Times ran a review of the book on September 9, 1917. [1] The work was claimed to be authored by the spirit of late Mark Twain by two mediums, Emily Grant Hutchings [2] and Lola V. Hays, with Hays being the passive recipient whose hands guided the Ouija board. [1]