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Israeli scholar Bennet Kravitz states that one could just as easily hate Jews for the reasons Twain gives for admiring them. In fact, Twain's essay was cited by Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Kravitz concludes, "The flawed logic of 'Concerning the Jews' and all philo-Semitism leads to the anti-Semitic beliefs that the latter seeks to deflate". [5]
King Leopold's Soliloquy is a 1905 pamphlet by American author Mark Twain. [1] Its subject is King Leopold 's rule over the Congo Free State . A work of political satire harshly condemnatory of his actions, it ostensibly recounts a fictional monologue of Leopold II speaking in his own defense.
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The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some ...
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Milton believed in the idea of soul sleeping or mortalism, which determines that the soul, upon death, is in a sleeplike state until the Last Judgment. [8] Similarly, he believed that Christ, when incarnated, merged his divine and human identities, and that both of these identities died during his Crucifixion. [ 9 ]
James Fenimore Cooper in an 1822 portrait. Everett Emerson (in Mark Twain: A Literary Life) wrote that the essay is "possibly the author's funniest". [6] Joseph Andriano, in The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, argued that Twain "Imposed the standards of Realism on Romance" and that this incongruity is a major source of the humor in the essay.
A significant detail about her death is that her last word was “Mamma.” Twain relies on the bond which existed between his wife and his daughter to write an even longer (eight pages) eulogy of his Susy, emphasizing her intelligence and quick thinking even as young child, and her having inherited her mother's positive qualities ...