Twain Mark (EN)
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Твен Марк
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
Дата рождения:
30 November 1835
Место рождения:
Florida, Missouri, U.S.
Дата смерти:
21 April 1910
Место смерти:
Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
ID автора:
8771
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[3] In 1865, his humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it—notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even though he had no legal responsibility to do so.
Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
Написанные книги
| Заголовок | Оценка | Добавлена | Жанры | Серии | Язык | Издана | Написана | ||
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
0 (0) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:27 | Исторические приключения | 79 | EN | |||
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings |
0 (0) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:27 | Классическая проза | 14 | EN | |||
Story of the Bad Little Boy |
0 (0) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:28 | Юмористическая проза, Классическая проза | 1 | EN | |||
Sympathy for the Devil |
0 (0) | 0 | 6 апреля 2014 21:32 | Триллеры | 141 | EN | 2010 | ||
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
10.0 (1) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:27 | Детская проза | 70 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer #0002 | EN | 1981 | |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
10.0 (3) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:27 | Детские приключения | 49 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer #0001 | EN | 1884 | |
The Story of the Good Little Boy |
0 (0) | 0 | 2 декабря 2010 13:28 | Юмористическая проза, Классическая проза | 2 | EN | |||
Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий (Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper) |
0 (0) | 0 | 9 декабря 2010 10:25 | Сказки | 152 | EN |