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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 ...
In this chapter, Twain recounts having his word discounted since he was young. Somewhere between the ages of 7 and 12, he believes his mother learned the art of interpreting his stories. Twain quotes her by saying, "I discount him thirty percent for embroidery, and what is left is perfect and priceless truth, without a flaw in it anywhere."
— Mark Twain, American novelist (21 April 1910), to his daughter Clara "Yes, I have heard of it. I am very glad." [36] — Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom (6 May 1910), on being told by his son that one of his horses had won a race "Pull up the shades; I don't want to go home in the dark." [37]: 22 [note 3]
Twain circa 1906. The majority of the Autobiography was composed during this time period.. The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) and left in typescript and manuscript at his death.
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The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who according to Twain become as distant to most people ...
The first volume of the autobiography, over 736 pages, was published by the University of California in November 2010, 100 years after his death, as Twain wished. [137] [138] It soon became an unexpected best-seller, [139] making Twain one of a very few authors publishing new best-selling volumes in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. [2] [1] It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt and had recently lost his wife and one of his daughters. [3]