 |
| When I’m playful, I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. |
| —Life on the Mississippi |
Mark
Twain |
|
 |
| Mark Twain |
| |
| pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. His novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a masterpiece of humor, characterization, and realism, has been called the first (and sometimes the best) modern American novel.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
| |
Pronunciation:  tw n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
| |
|
| |
- WORKS
-
- Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. X, Part 5.
-
- Bartlett’s Twain Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
-
- Twain, Mark, 61883 to 62235
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
-
-
- WRITINGS ABOUT TWAIN
-
- “Mark Twain”
Chapter by Stuart P. Sherman with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.
-
- “Mark Twain”
Chapter in Carl Van Doren’s the American Novel.
|
|
|
|
