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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (được biết đến với bút hiệu Mark Twain; 30/11/1835 – 21/4/1910), là một nhà văn khôi hài, tiểu thuyết gia và là nhà diễn thuyết nổi tiếng của Mỹ. Ông sinh ra vào chính ngày sao chổi Halley xuất hiện năm 1835 và mất đúng vào lần sao chổi xuất hiện lần sau, năm 1910.

Mark Twain là một nhà văn trào phúng nổi tiếng của Mỹ. Những tác phẩm của ông, với tính chất châm biếm sâu sắc, với những nét miêu tả tâm lý xã hội cực kỳ khéo léo, đã trở thành những vũ khí sắc bén đấu tranh chống sự áp bức thống trị của bọn cầm quyền phong kiến tư bản, nhất là chống cái chính sách dã man phân biệt chủng tộc đối với người da đen ở Mỹ.

Tác phẩm:

  • Sống thiếu thốn (Roughing It)
  • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867)
  • Các kẻ ngây thơ ở nước ngoài (Innocents Abroad, 1869)
  • Thời kỳ vàng son (The Gilded Age, 1873).
  • Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876)
  • Đi nước ngoài (A Tramp Abroad, 1880)
  • Hoàng tử và kẻ nghèo (The Prince and the Pauper, 1882)
  • Đời sống trên dòng sông Mississippi (Life on the Mississippi, 1883)
  • Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884)
  • Tên Yankee từ Connecticut trong triều đình vua Arthur (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889)
  • Người ngồi trong bóng tối (The Person sitting in the Darkness, 1901)
  • Độc thoại của vua Leopold (King Leopold 's Soliloquy, 1905)
  • Người Mỹ đòi quyền lợi (The American Claimant, 1892)
  • Bi kịch của Pudd'nhead Wilson (The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894) b
  • Theo đường xích đạo (Following the Equator, 1897)
  • Kẻ tham nhũng tại Hadleburg (The Man that Corrupted Hadleburg, 1899)
  • Người xa lạ bí mật (The Mysterious Stranger, 1916)

Với những tiểu thuyết đặc sắc và những nhân vật sống động cống hiến cho nền văn học Mỹ, Mark Twain xứng đáng là vì tinh tú đầu tiên của nền văn học hiện đại nước này.

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories contained span the course of his career, from Advice to Young Girls in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication date and this collection, there is little...
Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old

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Sketches New and Old is a group of fictional stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. Preface My Watch Political Economy The Jumping Frog Journalism in Tennessee The Story of the Bad Little Boy The Story of the Good Little Boy A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore Niagara Answers to Correspondents To Raise...
Roughing It

Roughing It

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Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 2

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 2

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain about Joan of Arc. It was Twain's last completed novel. The novel is presented as a translation (by "Jean Francois Alden") of memoirs by Louis de Conte. The novel describes itself as Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain about Joan of Arc. It was Twain's last completed novel. The novel is presented as a translation (by "Jean Francois Alden") of memoirs by Louis de Conte. The novel describes itself as Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion 

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion 

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The title of this essay has it right - these are just a series of stories about a trip that Twain and some friends took to Bermuda from New York City. Twain wrote this for "The Atlantic" in 1877 and his wry style makes him an excellent travel companion. In reality, Twain's story of the trip is the story of the people he meets along the way. Most of the stories are humorous, some are duds and...
On the Decay of the Art of Lying

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

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On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. He concludes by insisting that: “The wise thing...
Mark Twain's Speeches 

Mark Twain's Speeches 

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These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of the author's words; and he was a great actor as well as a great author. He was a most consummate actor, with this...
Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography 

Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography 

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Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance is an 1871 book by American author Mark Twain. Published by Sheldon & Co. in 1871, the book consists of two short stories: A Burlesque Autobiography, which first appeared in Twain's Memoranda contributions to The Galaxy, and First Romance, which originally appeared in The Express in 1870. The book bears no relationship to Twain's...
Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

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Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before theAmerican Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish...
Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography

Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography

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Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject. The original publication spans only 150 pages, and the formatting leaves roughly half of each page blank. The spine is thread bound. It...
In Defence of Harriet Shelley

In Defence of Harriet Shelley

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In Defense of Harriet Shelley is an excellent literary classic for all ages. Twain took much of his ideas and inspiration for his stories and tall tales from real experiences as a river boat pilot, his world travels, friendships, well known people, an educator and an early career as a journalist. A comical masterpiece by a legend of the past.
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is a series of essays by Mark Twain. In them he describes his own writing style, attacks the idiocy of a fellow author, defends the virtue of a dead woman, and tries to protect ordinary citizens from insults by railroad conductors.
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

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This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in 19th century San Francisco. 
George Silverman's Explanation

George Silverman's Explanation

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George Silverman's Explanation, published in instalments from January to March 1868, was one of the last pieces of fiction written by Charles Dickens, two years before his death. Silverman is born in a Preston cellar, and spends his early years locked in there, often left alone while his parents go out to seek work.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World 

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World 

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Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2.5 million in 2010) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895,...
Eve's Diary, Complete 

Eve's Diary, Complete 

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Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, and is claimed to be "translated from the original MS." The "plot" of this novel is the...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences 

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences 

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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clichés, cardboard characterizations, and a host...
Essays on Paul Bourget

Essays on Paul Bourget

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Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget".
Editorial Wild Oats 

Editorial Wild Oats 

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Twain is so funny. You forget if you haven't read him in years. This little book includes stories about working at various newspapers and humorous misunderstandings and events.

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