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Jul 21, 2014 · 6. @YoichiOishi: Mark Twain's entire quote was: "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." The author's use of this brilliant quote is just sloppy writing, because he would be effectively insulting his wife, calling her an idiot according to Twain.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Oct 10, 2010 · Here is an example of a dinner speech by Twain given at the St. James Hotel in New York in 1872 that clearly implies both his parents were alive when he was fourteen: [15] 2006, Mark Twain Speaking edited by Paul Fatout, Page 67, University of Iowa Press. (Dinner Speech – The Aldine Dinner, St. James Hotel, New York, Early February 1872.) (Google Books preview) …
Sep 28, 2017 · twain (n.) twain. (n.) Old English twegen "two" (masc. nominative and accusative), from Proto-Germanic *twa- "two," from PIE root *dwo- "two." It corresponds to Old Frisian twene, Dutch twee, Old High German zwene, Danish tvende. The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, especially in ...
Dec 12, 2019 · Summary. Mark Twain was a central figure in the prevailing literary movements of the second half of the nineteenth century: realism and naturalism. His friend William Dean Howells was the leading proponent of realism in American literature, and in Mark Twain he early saw a writer who would join him in his efforts to move literature beyond ...
Apr 8, 2013 · Some time ago, while doing some research for my Twain-related labor of love, I came upon On the Poetry of Mark Twain with Selections from His Verse (public library) — a 1966 gem, published by the University of Illinois, in which Arthur L. Scott sets out to debunk Twain’s famous “literary declaration” that he detests poetry. Instead, Scott demonstrates that Twain’s impulsive remark ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Updated on March 02, 2018. Considered one of the great American Realist writers, Mark Twain is not only celebrated for the stories he tells but also the way in which he tells them, with an unmatched ear for the English language and sensitivity to the diction of the common man. To flesh out his stories, Twain also drew heavily on his personal ...
