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| Age: | 97 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21) |
| Last Login: | Aug 19, 2007 (385 days back) |
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Contact Tables Network Banners Premade LayoutsSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.Although Twain was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit were keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Nikola Tesla, Helen Keller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Twain died in 1910 and is buried in Elmira, New York.Clemens usually maintained that his primary pen name, "Mark Twain," came from his years on the riverboat, where two fathoms (12 ft, approximately 3.7 m) or "safe water" was measured on the sounding line and marked by calling "mark twain". However, the name may also have come from his wilder days in the West, where he would buy two drinks and tell the bartender to "mark twain" on his tab. The complete origin of the pseudonym is unknown.Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. When he was four, his family moved to Hannibal, a port town on the Mississippi River which later served as the inspiration for the fictional town of St. Petersberg in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Missouri had been admitted as a slave state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise, and from an early age Twain was exposed to the institution of slavery, a theme which Twain was to later explore in his work. Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is generally considered to be his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As Ernest Hemingway once said:"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ...all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."In recent years, there have been occasional attempts to ban Huckleberry Finn from various libraries because Twain's use of local color is offensive to some people. Although Twain was against racism and imperialism far ahead of the public sentiment of his time, those who have only superficial familiarity with his work have sometimes condemned it as racist because it accurately depicts language in common use in the 19th-century United States. Expressions that were used casually and unselfconsciously then are often perceived today as racist (today, such racial epithets are far more visible and condemned). Twain himself would probably be amused by these attempts; in 1885, when a library in Concord, Massachusetts banned the book, he wrote to his publisher, "They have expelled Huck from their library as 'trash suitable only for the slums', that will sell 25,000 copies for us for sure."wikipedia.orgFor more see Twain Quotes.com collection, Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, Mark Twain's Mississippi River from Northern Illinois University, Life and Works of Mark Twain from the Hannibal Courier Post and The Mark Twain House . |
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Books:The Innocents Abroad 1869 Curious Republic of Gondour 1870 A Burlesque Autobiography 1871 Roughing It 1872 The Gilded Age 1873 Sketches New and Old 1875 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876 Carnival of Crime in CT 1877 A Tramp Abroad 1880 1601 1880 The Prince and the Pauper 1881 The Stolen White Elephant 1882 Life on the Mississippi 1883 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889 The American Claimant 1892 Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1894 Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol 1 1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol 2 1896 How to Tell a Story and Others 1897 Following the Equator 1897 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories 1900 A Double Barrelled Detective 1902 Extracts from Adam's Diary 1904 A Dog's Tale 1904 The $30,000 Bequest 1906 What is Man? and Other Essays of Mark Twain 1906 Mark Twain's Speeches 1906 Christian Science 1907 A Horse's Tale 1907 Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909 Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven l909 The Mysterious Stranger 1916 uncompleted Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories Essays on Paul Bourget Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again In Defense of Harriet Shelley On the Decay of the Art of Lying Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion The Boys Life of Mark Twain Those Extraordinary Twins |
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| -A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.-A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to r... Posted by Mark Twain on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:45:00 PST |
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