Abstract

Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer and humorist. For well over a 100 years America's most beloved scribe has been amusing, instructing, and humorously chastising readers in the United States and round the world. Now, with the aid of the substantial editorial abilities of documented Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen, the expert raconteur is assisted up new, new, and delightfully irreverent, on hundreds of topics from bon mots on misfortunes, actors, and Adam and Eve (“Adam and Eve had numerous benefits, but the primary one was, that they got away teething”) to commentary on worms, adoration, and composing (“if I'd a knowed what a problem it was to make a publication I wouldn't a undertook it and ain't agoing to no more” [Huck Finn]). In between, Twain appears to have left readers worthy remarks on a impressive medley of topics, from cats and chameleons, places of adoration and cigars, to “the lesson sense,” suicide, reality, and swearing. Even “skin color” deserves an application that those accuse Twain of racism should read: “Nearly all very dark and dark coverings are attractive, but a attractive white skin is rare.”

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Mark Twain

Introduction

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was a journalist, writer and humorist born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835 and died in Connecticut on April 21, 1910. By William Faulkner called "the father of American literature, Twain wrote over 500 works, beginning his career as a typographer, and traveling from one city to another and printing to the next. Gradually developed as a journalist, a time when it adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain, but his critical views against racism, slavery and other contentious social issues, reversed that call, it was through his stories and novels with which finally got recognition, still known today mostly Adventures of Tom ...