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3049 quotes from Mark Twain: 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.', 'Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.', and 'Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).'.
Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. A distinguished novelist, fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic, he ranks among the great figures of American literature. His novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is generally considered his masterpiece.
Mar 14, 2023 · 5. Mark Twain invented a board game. While Twain was putting off writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was busy working on a game he dubbed Memory Builder.It was originally supposed to be ...
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Mark Twain, vlastním jménem Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (30. listopadu 1835, Florida, Missouri, USA – 21. dubna 1910 Redding, Connecticut) byl americký novinář, spisovatel a humorista, představitel amerického realismu. Proslavil se zejména svými humornými příběhy, které se vyznačují místním koloritem a přesným pozorováním společenského chování, a také ostrou kritikou ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Mark Twain. Mark Twain, c. 1907. Shortly after Clemens’s death, Howells published My Mark Twain (1910), in which he pronounced Samuel Clemens “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”. Twenty-five years later Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Green Hills of Africa (1935), “All modern American literature comes from one book by ...
Oct 6, 2021 · Mark twain is the nautical term for water found to be two fathoms – i.e. 12 feet (3.7 meters) deep. Thus mark means “measure”, while twain means “ two”. Mark Twain also acknowledged that his famous pen name was used by Captain Isaiah Sellers before he adopted in his literary profession.
Mark Twain ünnepelt hírességként halt meg. Életműve sok amerikai íróra elemi hatással volt. Ernest Hemingway mondta róla: „Az egész amerikai irodalom Mark Twain egyetlen könyvéből ered, a Huckleberry Finnből… Előtte semmi sem volt. Azóta sem írtak ilyen jót.” Dombormű Mark Twain sírján, Elmira, NY Művei
