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Interviews Published Originally in Translation “Ein Besuch bei Mark Twain.” Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), 1 October 1897, 1. Translated and reprinted in American Literary Realism 10 (winter 1977): 77–78. Excerpted in Viestnik Inostrannoi ...
Too great a pressure may be as devastating to a work as too little. although writers like Twain are more likely to suffer from too little. In Twain's case there is often something pleasant in even the lesser pages. precisely because of ...
1870–1871 Mark Twain Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Lin Salamo. Acknowledgments. IIditorial work on this volume in the Mark Twain Papers was again made possible by the continuing generosity of the American taxpayer, ...
Mark Twain in Eruption, ed., B. de Voto (Harper's, 1940) Mark Twain and the Happy Island, E. Wallace (A. C. McClurg, 1913) Mark Twain, His Life and Work, W. Clemens (F. Tennyson Neely, 1894) Mark Twain and I, O. Read (Reilly & Lee, ...
1869 Mark Twain Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Dahlia Armon. lishing their independent derivation from the lost manuscripts . Otherwise , if a letter appears both in MTL and MTB , MTL is chosen as copytext and MTB treated as if it ...
Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend Mark Twain John P. Holms, Karin Baji. post-Civil War America. The latter book was cowritten by Charles Dudley Warner, a fellow resident at Nook Farm. In 1876, Twain published The Adventures of Tom ...
Letters from His Readers Mark Twain R. Kent Rasmussen. I am preparing a handy book on pseudonyms—to include the history of the more important ones—wh. the Harpers are to publish—and it is extremely desirable th.
Mark Twain once wrote: “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Certainly, he often meant to reduce his targets to rubble. But humor, he knew too, is not simply a weapon. It is “the great thing, the saving thing after all.
Twain demonstrated his vivid imagination, making up a series of stories—published as news—for the Territorial Enterprise. The two most popular pieces were the “Petrified Man” and “Empire City Massacre” hoaxes, early examples of “fake ...
Old Times on the Mississippi + Life on the Mississippi + Christian Science + Queen Victoria's Jubilee + My Platonic Sweetheart + Editorial Wild Oats Mark Twain. able to recite them glibly, forward or backward, or begin at random ...
Mark Twain. he had been a person of any note at all, aged villagers would have had much to tell about him many and many a year after his death, instead of being unable to furnish inquirers a single fact connected withhim.
eBook Edition Mark Twain. Buffalo agreed with neither Mrs. Clemens nor thebaby. What with nursing and anguish of mind, Mark Twainfound that he could do nothing on the new book, and that he must giveup his magazine Clemens did not fail ...
Mark Twain, August Nemo. have fought, on the Southern side, and then changed his allegiance before the war was over. This kind of behaviour is more excusable in a boy than in a man, whence the adjustment of the dates.
During his long voyage a number of Mark Twain's articles had appeared in the magazines, among them "Mental Telegraphy Again," in Harpers, and in the North American Review that scorching reply to Paul Bourget's reflections upon America.
Twain was prompted to do so after the lynching of Will Godley, his grandfather French Godley, and Eugene Carter (aka ... of Gazelle Wild (or Casselle Wilds) on August 19, 1901 in Pierce City, Missouri, located in Twain's homestate.
A Book of Quotations Mark Twain. VARIOUS SUBJECTS The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Cablegram × I am used to swan songs; I have sung them several times. “Seventieth Birthday” (speech) x The cross of the Legion of Honor ...
Mark Twain. procedure, he would at least make the letters picturesque. It was in the midst of this work that he adopted the name which he was to make famous throughout the world. The story of its adoption has been fully told elsewhere ...
[I will state, in passing, that the journal above quoted from always referred to me afterward as “Twain, the BodySnatcher.”] The next newspaper article that attracted my attention was the following: A SWEET CANDIDATE.
TWAIN. IN 34 VOLUMES Parts Edition Contents The Novels 1, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today 2, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3, The Prince and the Pauper 4, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 6, ...