CHAPTER IX.
Close to Australia—­Porpoises at Night—­Entrance
to Sydney Harbor—­The
Loss of the Duncan Dunbar—­The Harbor—­The
City of Sydney—&sh...
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.
Another man’s,
I mean.
&n...
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CHAPTER LI.
Let me make the superstitions of a
nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs
either.
—­Pudd’nhead
Wilson’s New Calendar.
Yes, the city of Benares is...
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CHAPTER IX.
It is your human environment that makes climate.
&...
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CHAPTER XXX.
Nature makes the locust with an appetite
for crops; man would have made him with an appetite
for sand.
—­Pudd’nhead
Wilson’s New Calendar.
We spent part of an ...
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CHAPTER IX.
Close to Australia—­Porpoises at Night—­Entrance
to Sydney Harbor—­The
Loss of the Duncan Dunbar—­The Harbor—­The
City of Sydney—&sh...
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CHAPTER XX.
It is by the goodness of God that in our
country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either ...
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CHAPTER LXI.
In the first place God made idiots. This was
for practice. Then He made
School Boards.
&n...
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, oft...
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Biography EssayIn the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Miss...
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At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my...
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In the early spring of 1835, John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave, in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a...
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When one considers Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life and writings, the role of literary critic is hardly the first category that comes to mind. Yet in the course of his career he compiled a large body ...
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An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distin...
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Mark Twain is the best-known and most-beloved American writer in the world, and his stature as the quintessential American writer rests in large part upon his "westernness." Born at the edge of the fr...
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For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being...
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Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had kn...
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Following the Equator — Part 1
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens