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- Real Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Born: November 30, 1835
- Birthplace: Florida, Missouri
- Died: April 21, 1910
- Literary Genre: Satire, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Essays, Fantasy
- Color blind
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Career
As a young man, Samuel Clemens educated himself in public libraries and worked as a printer and typesetter. He contributed articles to The Hannibal Journal at the age of fifteen. A wandering factotum, Clemens worked as a steamboat pilot, silver miner, journalist and, as accounts of his experiences became known to newspapers, a paid lecturer.There is no complete accounting of Samuel Clemens work, since much of it was written for newspapers and other transient media. His earliest notable short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in The New York Saturday Press in 1865. More than a hundred novels, short stories, essays and commentaries survive, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Roughing It and other acknowledged classics of American Literature.
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Notable Works
- 1872: Roughing It
- 1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1882: The Prince and the Pauper
- 1885: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1906: Eve's Diary
- 1916: The Mysterious Stranger
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Mark Twain Questions
What are the proposed changes for Mark to Market regulation? 1 AnswerThey eased up on the guidelines of what the value of the investments are that a bank is holding. The trouble stemmed from the problem of banks with mortgages on... read more
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Mark Twain said, "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." Do you agree? What are.... 6 AnswersI agree with Twain on this one (though knowing him, he might have meant it ironically). Of course, words alone don't make the person. But I think you can tell ... read more
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Mark Twain Quotations
- Mahalo's Guide to Mark Twain Quotes
- TwainQuotes.com: Directory of maxims, quotations and opinions
- Quoteland: Quotations by Mark Twain
- BrainyQuote.com: Mark Twain entry
- The Quotations Page: Mark Twain entry
Mark Twain Timeline
- November 30, 1835: Born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri
- March, 1847: Father John Marshall Clemens dies of pneumonia
- 1851: Starts work as a typesetter and writer for Hannibal Journal
- 1859: Receives steamboat pilot's license
- 1865: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County published in New York Saturday Press
- 1870: Marries Olivia Langdon
- 1876: Publishes most famous work, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1881: The Prince and the Pauper
- 1884: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- April 21, 1910: Dies in Connecticut from angina pectoris
Notable Mark Twain Film Adaptations
- Note: The following links lead to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1907: Tom Sawyer
- 1937: The Prince and the Pauper
- 1939: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1949: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- 1960: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1973: Tom Sawyer musical
- 1985: The Adventures of Mark Twain
- 1993: The Adventures of Huck Finn
- 1995: Tom and Huck
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.> Mark Twain
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É curioso que no mundo a coragem física seja tão comum e coragem moral tão rara. Mark Twain
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Você não pode confiar em seus olhos quando sua imaginação está fora de foco." (Mark Twain)
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Benares's older than history,older than tradition, older even than legend, & looks twice as old as all of them put together: Mark Twain
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