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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.

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...
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...
Mark Twain's Letters - Complete (1853-1910) 

Mark Twain's Letters - Complete (1853-1910) 

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According to the foreword: "Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters--prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication--but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than one hundred editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner originally had planned to issue the novel with...
The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerlyUSS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He...
The American Claimant

The American Claimant

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The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help ofphonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature. Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a replay of the Garden of Eden story in a satiric sense. Hadleyburg enjoys...
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

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The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race". Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan".
The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

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The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lanein...
The Stolen White Elephant

The Stolen White Elephant

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The Stolen White Elephant is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood. In this detectivemystery, a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. The main characters of the story include: Mark Twain,...

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