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With permission from International Publishers, I've scanned Mark Twain: Social Critic and put it online for anyone to read. I've also added it to the "Further reading" section since I figure it is a commonly-cited book (even the article cites it a few times.) -- Ismail ( talk) 11:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
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There are two birth years in this article. I doubt he was born in 1945. 2001:569:FB25:F900:596E:D213:7B69:DDFA ( talk) 01:48, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Done. Thank you for catching that bit of minor vandalism. -- Calton | Talk 01:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
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Please remove Category:Critics of Christian Science. There is no support for it in the article text. Alternatively, retain and bolster it with material from Christian Science (book), which includes 4 usable WP:RS. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 ( talk) 04:33, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
His book thereon is covered in Christian Science (book) linked directly in this article already. In addition View of Mark Twain seems quite clear. Removal of the category seems undue when a single sentence would remedy the fault, if it be a fault. Collect ( talk) 17:24, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
A source for the claim: " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been repeatedly restricted in American high schools, not least for its frequent use of the word "nigger",[citation needed]" can be found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/banned-adventures-huckleberry-finn/ as well as https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12058648/American-school-bans-Huckleberry-Finn-from-lessons-because-of-use-of-N-word.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rincewind Lanbatal ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
The story that he took the name from Captain Isaiah Sellers death in 1869 would seem to contradict the fact that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published under that pen name a few years prior to 1869. Perhaps this is just a problem with the year of Sellers' death?
Also,the May/13/1867 Philadelphia Evening Telegraph states that Twain's real name is C.H. Webb: "... the genial 'Mark Twain,' of California, whose proper and real name is C.H. Webb." — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiffuseGoose ( talk • contribs) 12:29, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Add this reference under Further Reading
Nathan G. Alexander, "Unclasping the Eagle's Talons: Mark Twain, American Freethought, and the Responses to Imperialism." The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, no. 3 (2018): 524-545. Nameno1staken ( talk) 21:49, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
There is an odd symbol I do not recognize, apparently the only thing to click in the footnote text. However, it leads to the current best seller list of the Times, which seems not relevant to this article. The text is discussing the popularity of Twain's autobiography, published in 1910. Perhaps other readers are confused, as I am. Eleanorba ( talk) 14:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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Name was Clemons, not Twain. Article should be revised and other references standardized — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:4300:71F0:19BA:9475:E9BE:94D2 ( talk) 00:51, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
For crying out loud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.112.255 ( talk) 18:31, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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Please change the first sentence of the article to the following:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer, and racist.
This edit request adds information which is 100% verifiable by the text of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which Clemens, a white man, wrote and used the N word countless times in. Antifa for justice ( talk) 23:47, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
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Proposed addition to "Marriage and children" subsection, to give a fuller picture of Twain's social circle:
Twain and Olivia were friends of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church, whose art Twain admired, [1] and were visitors at Olana, his home in Hudson, New York. [2]
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In the "Pen Names" section, in the quotation derived from note 144, change "He died in 1869" to "He died in 1863" per the source cited. The link in note 144 shows the correct quotation from which this is taken. (The timing of Twain using the pen name from 1863 on would make no sense if Sellers had died in 1869.) Xanduh ( talk) 21:53, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Done – Thank you. I have made the suggested change, which is indeed in accordance with the source, and with making sense. Dhtwiki ( talk) 22:33, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
The infobox has contained the A.F. Bradley photo of Twain at age 72 since February 2019. This is the way most people alive today remember Twain. One user switched it with the 1871 Matthew Brady portrait (age 36). This is not at all a familiar image today of Twain. I believe the important thing for a biographical image is the rememberance of the individual, not necessarily the aesthetics of the photograph. The Bradley photo has also been assessed as "the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Mark Twain". What say you all? JustinTime55 ( talk) 22:51, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Like most authors, much of his best work was as a younger man.His most notable works are recognized to be Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and these were written in Hartford, CT during his "old geezer" period. JustinTime55 ( talk) 16:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Well I have to say, this discussion from nearly a year ago is one of the most ridiculously absurd discussions I've seen in a while...but I agree with Smallbones, and the arguments for the suppressing the photo of him that was taken during his heyday are flat out BAD arguments. Other than the nonsense about a cropped photo (WHO CARES?), the arguments can all basically be summarized as: "it doesn't matter if the general public's common perception about something is inaccurate, we must preserve the general popular images of things, be they accurate or nay!" Reakly?? That is what an encyclopaedia is meant to do? The statement directly above that the job of anything on here is "not to educate people" I find truly alarming. That is PRECISELY what encyclopaedias are meant to do! And seriously...what reader would seriously think, "Oh, this must not be the right Mark Twain that wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, because that Mark Twain was an old man." Readers are not that dumb! 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:5010:5C21:EA43:B649 ( talk) 22:14, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
The photo of Twain posing with George Alfred Townsend and David Gray has opened up another can of worms. There are no cited sources for these contradictory facts:
Why would Twain pose with a competing editor (especially when he owned a stake)? Isn't it more likely that Gray actually edited the Express? The person who uploaded the photo could have carelessly wrote "Buffalo Courier" because of the title of the merger page, and the editor of that page could have carelessly listed Gray as editor of the Courrier because of the photo (or vice-versa). I went out on a limb and made the caption of the photo here agree with our page, but we need to find a source for this. JustinTime55 ( talk) 17:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
I find it interesting that Mr. Clemens actually wrote a book on this religion, on top of the fact that his wife and one of his daughters joined the church, and there is not a single mention of this anywhere in the Wikipedia bi0. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.37.31.103 ( talk) 04:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
The censorship section seems unnecessary since it was already mentioned that some of his work was censored because of the language. Gmora1011 ( talk) 18:13, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Twain heartily disliked Sir Walter Scott's novels. If a reader types in Google "Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott" he or she can find a long attack on Scott's deficiencies. Shouldn't this fact be added to the discussion of other authors Twain disliked, such as Jane Austen and Fenimore Cooper? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.154.183.50 ( talk) 00:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Why is the page title in italics? AllegedlyHuman ( talk) 17:06, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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This section says Mr. Twain visited Toronto twice, 1864 and 1865. The King Edward Hotel page includes Mr. Twain among a list of celebrity guests, but the King Edward didn't open until 1903. Is there any way to resolve this apparent contradiction? The use of the word ""twice" suggests only twice. Perhaps change visited Toronto twice, 1864 and 1865 to visited Toronto in 1864 and 1865. Greenfielddude ( talk) 15:44, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Is a blog a good source to claim twain was a rightwing libertarian and in favor of Laissez-faire capitalism? Under the Views section his views seem to contradict his qoute about oppressors and his association with leftists. 73.134.202.198 ( talk) 17:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
I think the entire section from "Politics to before Labor" should be removed. It qoutes a book that does not suggest he was Pro-Captialist. A blog and a review by a professor in the 1970s. After doing research the claims appear to be completely unfounded — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.134.202.198 ( talk) 18:33, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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62.88.128.134 ( talk) 06:39, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Eftersom han har jobbat mycket på tidningar, skrev han mycket från tidigt ålder. Om sina äventyr som silver brytare i Nevada skrev han små berättelser som han samlade och gav ut mycket senare i en bok med titeln Slita hund den kom ut år 1943. Det var på den tiden han mötte indianer för första gången.
Efter 1861 börjar han använda pseudonymen Mark Twain. Genombrottet i hans författarskap var hans novel Jim Smiley och hans hoppande groda som kom ut år 1865. Man kunde läsa det i tidningen i hela landet. Tack vare denna novellen fick han uppdraget att göra resereportage i Hawaii som blev också väldigt omtyckta. Eftersom han gillade resa åkte han till Europa och Palestina. Han gav ut sin första bok efter denna resan och den hette En tripp runt gamla värden. (1869) Den blev enormt populärt. Hans mest kända romaner är Tom Sawyers äventyr, Huckleberry Finns äventyr ( han har börjat skriva samtidigt 1876 men Huckleberry Finns kom ut bara 1884). Lika känd är Mississippi. I dessa romaner berättar han äventyr från sin barndom.
Tom Sawyer äventyr utan tvekan hans mest populära roman. Han skrev det 1876. Dess huvudpersoner är barn som tänker som barn, pratar som barn och agerar som barn. Händelsen blir extra spännande när Tom och Huck bevittnar ett mord i kyrkogården en natt.
En av hans mest kända verk är Huckleberry Finn äventyr. Den handlar om en ung kille som rymmer från sin alkoholistiska far som slår honom. Finns äventyr ett inblick i amerkíkanska samhället från början av 1900-talet på ett intressant och humoristisk sätt.
Livet på Mississippi är en samlings av berättelse delvis av personliga minnen av sin egen liv. Han jobbade på olika ångbåtar på Mississippi. Sedan innehåller den en massa anekdoter från Mississippi områden. Vi får läsa om hur det är att styra fartyg över floden som ständigt förändras. Boken börjar med en berättelse om den första europenen som såg floden 1542. Vi får även läsa upptäcktsresande och nybyggare som bosatte sig vid floden. Denna bok den första som hade ett maskinskrivet manuskript till förlaget.
Mark Twins böcker är antingen reseberättelser eller äventyrsromaner.
Slutet av 1800-talet, början av 1900-talet kallas för Realism i litteraturhistoria. Tidigare skrev man mycket om känslor och historiska händelser. Realismens författare är mest intresserad av samhällsfrågor, de förtjänar ingenting, de visar samhället som det är. Twins romaner är fortfarande intressanta därför att han skrev om samhällsproblem som fortfarande är utmaningar i USA och i de flesta länderna: rasism, klasskillnader tillgång till utbildning , hur landskapet förändras genom mänsklig aktivitet.
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Samuel L. Clemens' father and grandfather lived on the Ohio River in what is now Lakin in Mason County, West Virginia. West Virginia Historical Society has placed a historical marker beside Route 62 between Point Pleasant and Mason, West Virginia. PaulaLNapier ( talk) 22:06, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
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In the section on Twain's death, there is a claim that he died one day after Halley's Comet's closest approach to earth. While he did die one day after the Comet's perihelion in 1910, and possibly its closest approach in that year, Halley's Comet's closest approach to Earth was in 837, when it passed approximately 3 miles from the Earth. I worry that this language is ambiguous in the first section (less so when mentioned later in the article), and I suggest a change in the first section to "Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well, dying the day after the comet's 1910 perihelion." Here is the Nasa.gov text on the Comet's closest approach: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/1p-halley/in-depth/#:~:text=The%20comet's%20closest%20approach%20to,of%20Venus%20at%20greatest%20brilliance. This is a very fun fact about Mark Twain! Erinshapland ( talk) 14:31, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Mentioned in: User:Michaelbusch #Objection 5: insert flawed statistical argument. The user (Michaelbusch) is retired from wp.
Ping welcome, Steue ( talk) 07:45, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Apologies for not having a source for this, but an educator with the library support organization Ohio Library Council once told his audience (including this writer) that he came into the profession after failing as a school teacher, and that based on this experience he was mindful of a version by Mark Twain, which he quoted as "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again - and then give up: don't be a damn fool about it." 2603:6010:4E42:500:5D2D:8B07:BCAB:7290 ( talk) 03:53, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
his salary shouldn't be one hundred and fifty, it should be one hundred fifty no and Bubs008 ( talk) 13:49, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
In the section, Early Life, the Wikipedia article on Mark Twain states, "His parents met when his father moved to Missouri. They were married in 1823." Although, they were married in 1823, Mark Twian's father, John Marshall Clemens and his mother Jane Lampton met in Kentucky where they both lived and were married in Kentucky on May 6, 1823. This edit is from "Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" (The Official Biography of Mark Twain), written by Albert Bigelow Paine. ShyeTK ( talk) 03:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
@ Clarityfiend Referring to the recent removal of the category pertaining to comedian. I wondered what your thoughts were on these sources. [1] [2]
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The grammar is a little wrong with the birthday of Mark Twain can it be okay if I change it so people can understand this article better? MochaCat12 ( talk) 03:14, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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With permission from International Publishers, I've scanned Mark Twain: Social Critic and put it online for anyone to read. I've also added it to the "Further reading" section since I figure it is a commonly-cited book (even the article cites it a few times.) -- Ismail ( talk) 11:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
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There are two birth years in this article. I doubt he was born in 1945. 2001:569:FB25:F900:596E:D213:7B69:DDFA ( talk) 01:48, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Done. Thank you for catching that bit of minor vandalism. -- Calton | Talk 01:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
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Please remove Category:Critics of Christian Science. There is no support for it in the article text. Alternatively, retain and bolster it with material from Christian Science (book), which includes 4 usable WP:RS. 2600:8800:1880:91E:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 ( talk) 04:33, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
His book thereon is covered in Christian Science (book) linked directly in this article already. In addition View of Mark Twain seems quite clear. Removal of the category seems undue when a single sentence would remedy the fault, if it be a fault. Collect ( talk) 17:24, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
A source for the claim: " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been repeatedly restricted in American high schools, not least for its frequent use of the word "nigger",[citation needed]" can be found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/banned-adventures-huckleberry-finn/ as well as https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12058648/American-school-bans-Huckleberry-Finn-from-lessons-because-of-use-of-N-word.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rincewind Lanbatal ( talk • contribs) 05:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
The story that he took the name from Captain Isaiah Sellers death in 1869 would seem to contradict the fact that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published under that pen name a few years prior to 1869. Perhaps this is just a problem with the year of Sellers' death?
Also,the May/13/1867 Philadelphia Evening Telegraph states that Twain's real name is C.H. Webb: "... the genial 'Mark Twain,' of California, whose proper and real name is C.H. Webb." — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiffuseGoose ( talk • contribs) 12:29, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
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Add this reference under Further Reading
Nathan G. Alexander, "Unclasping the Eagle's Talons: Mark Twain, American Freethought, and the Responses to Imperialism." The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, no. 3 (2018): 524-545. Nameno1staken ( talk) 21:49, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
There is an odd symbol I do not recognize, apparently the only thing to click in the footnote text. However, it leads to the current best seller list of the Times, which seems not relevant to this article. The text is discussing the popularity of Twain's autobiography, published in 1910. Perhaps other readers are confused, as I am. Eleanorba ( talk) 14:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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Name was Clemons, not Twain. Article should be revised and other references standardized — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:4300:71F0:19BA:9475:E9BE:94D2 ( talk) 00:51, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
For crying out loud. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.112.255 ( talk) 18:31, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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Please change the first sentence of the article to the following:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer, and racist.
This edit request adds information which is 100% verifiable by the text of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which Clemens, a white man, wrote and used the N word countless times in. Antifa for justice ( talk) 23:47, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
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Proposed addition to "Marriage and children" subsection, to give a fuller picture of Twain's social circle:
Twain and Olivia were friends of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church, whose art Twain admired, [1] and were visitors at Olana, his home in Hudson, New York. [2]
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In the "Pen Names" section, in the quotation derived from note 144, change "He died in 1869" to "He died in 1863" per the source cited. The link in note 144 shows the correct quotation from which this is taken. (The timing of Twain using the pen name from 1863 on would make no sense if Sellers had died in 1869.) Xanduh ( talk) 21:53, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Done – Thank you. I have made the suggested change, which is indeed in accordance with the source, and with making sense. Dhtwiki ( talk) 22:33, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
The infobox has contained the A.F. Bradley photo of Twain at age 72 since February 2019. This is the way most people alive today remember Twain. One user switched it with the 1871 Matthew Brady portrait (age 36). This is not at all a familiar image today of Twain. I believe the important thing for a biographical image is the rememberance of the individual, not necessarily the aesthetics of the photograph. The Bradley photo has also been assessed as "the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Mark Twain". What say you all? JustinTime55 ( talk) 22:51, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Like most authors, much of his best work was as a younger man.His most notable works are recognized to be Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and these were written in Hartford, CT during his "old geezer" period. JustinTime55 ( talk) 16:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Well I have to say, this discussion from nearly a year ago is one of the most ridiculously absurd discussions I've seen in a while...but I agree with Smallbones, and the arguments for the suppressing the photo of him that was taken during his heyday are flat out BAD arguments. Other than the nonsense about a cropped photo (WHO CARES?), the arguments can all basically be summarized as: "it doesn't matter if the general public's common perception about something is inaccurate, we must preserve the general popular images of things, be they accurate or nay!" Reakly?? That is what an encyclopaedia is meant to do? The statement directly above that the job of anything on here is "not to educate people" I find truly alarming. That is PRECISELY what encyclopaedias are meant to do! And seriously...what reader would seriously think, "Oh, this must not be the right Mark Twain that wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, because that Mark Twain was an old man." Readers are not that dumb! 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:5010:5C21:EA43:B649 ( talk) 22:14, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
The photo of Twain posing with George Alfred Townsend and David Gray has opened up another can of worms. There are no cited sources for these contradictory facts:
Why would Twain pose with a competing editor (especially when he owned a stake)? Isn't it more likely that Gray actually edited the Express? The person who uploaded the photo could have carelessly wrote "Buffalo Courier" because of the title of the merger page, and the editor of that page could have carelessly listed Gray as editor of the Courrier because of the photo (or vice-versa). I went out on a limb and made the caption of the photo here agree with our page, but we need to find a source for this. JustinTime55 ( talk) 17:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
I find it interesting that Mr. Clemens actually wrote a book on this religion, on top of the fact that his wife and one of his daughters joined the church, and there is not a single mention of this anywhere in the Wikipedia bi0. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.37.31.103 ( talk) 04:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
The censorship section seems unnecessary since it was already mentioned that some of his work was censored because of the language. Gmora1011 ( talk) 18:13, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Twain heartily disliked Sir Walter Scott's novels. If a reader types in Google "Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott" he or she can find a long attack on Scott's deficiencies. Shouldn't this fact be added to the discussion of other authors Twain disliked, such as Jane Austen and Fenimore Cooper? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.154.183.50 ( talk) 00:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
Why is the page title in italics? AllegedlyHuman ( talk) 17:06, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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This section says Mr. Twain visited Toronto twice, 1864 and 1865. The King Edward Hotel page includes Mr. Twain among a list of celebrity guests, but the King Edward didn't open until 1903. Is there any way to resolve this apparent contradiction? The use of the word ""twice" suggests only twice. Perhaps change visited Toronto twice, 1864 and 1865 to visited Toronto in 1864 and 1865. Greenfielddude ( talk) 15:44, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Is a blog a good source to claim twain was a rightwing libertarian and in favor of Laissez-faire capitalism? Under the Views section his views seem to contradict his qoute about oppressors and his association with leftists. 73.134.202.198 ( talk) 17:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
I think the entire section from "Politics to before Labor" should be removed. It qoutes a book that does not suggest he was Pro-Captialist. A blog and a review by a professor in the 1970s. After doing research the claims appear to be completely unfounded — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.134.202.198 ( talk) 18:33, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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62.88.128.134 ( talk) 06:39, 28 September 2022 (UTC)Eftersom han har jobbat mycket på tidningar, skrev han mycket från tidigt ålder. Om sina äventyr som silver brytare i Nevada skrev han små berättelser som han samlade och gav ut mycket senare i en bok med titeln Slita hund den kom ut år 1943. Det var på den tiden han mötte indianer för första gången.
Efter 1861 börjar han använda pseudonymen Mark Twain. Genombrottet i hans författarskap var hans novel Jim Smiley och hans hoppande groda som kom ut år 1865. Man kunde läsa det i tidningen i hela landet. Tack vare denna novellen fick han uppdraget att göra resereportage i Hawaii som blev också väldigt omtyckta. Eftersom han gillade resa åkte han till Europa och Palestina. Han gav ut sin första bok efter denna resan och den hette En tripp runt gamla värden. (1869) Den blev enormt populärt. Hans mest kända romaner är Tom Sawyers äventyr, Huckleberry Finns äventyr ( han har börjat skriva samtidigt 1876 men Huckleberry Finns kom ut bara 1884). Lika känd är Mississippi. I dessa romaner berättar han äventyr från sin barndom.
Tom Sawyer äventyr utan tvekan hans mest populära roman. Han skrev det 1876. Dess huvudpersoner är barn som tänker som barn, pratar som barn och agerar som barn. Händelsen blir extra spännande när Tom och Huck bevittnar ett mord i kyrkogården en natt.
En av hans mest kända verk är Huckleberry Finn äventyr. Den handlar om en ung kille som rymmer från sin alkoholistiska far som slår honom. Finns äventyr ett inblick i amerkíkanska samhället från början av 1900-talet på ett intressant och humoristisk sätt.
Livet på Mississippi är en samlings av berättelse delvis av personliga minnen av sin egen liv. Han jobbade på olika ångbåtar på Mississippi. Sedan innehåller den en massa anekdoter från Mississippi områden. Vi får läsa om hur det är att styra fartyg över floden som ständigt förändras. Boken börjar med en berättelse om den första europenen som såg floden 1542. Vi får även läsa upptäcktsresande och nybyggare som bosatte sig vid floden. Denna bok den första som hade ett maskinskrivet manuskript till förlaget.
Mark Twins böcker är antingen reseberättelser eller äventyrsromaner.
Slutet av 1800-talet, början av 1900-talet kallas för Realism i litteraturhistoria. Tidigare skrev man mycket om känslor och historiska händelser. Realismens författare är mest intresserad av samhällsfrågor, de förtjänar ingenting, de visar samhället som det är. Twins romaner är fortfarande intressanta därför att han skrev om samhällsproblem som fortfarande är utmaningar i USA och i de flesta länderna: rasism, klasskillnader tillgång till utbildning , hur landskapet förändras genom mänsklig aktivitet.
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Mark twain and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 November 7#Mark twain until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TartarTorte 18:53, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Samuel L. Clemens' father and grandfather lived on the Ohio River in what is now Lakin in Mason County, West Virginia. West Virginia Historical Society has placed a historical marker beside Route 62 between Point Pleasant and Mason, West Virginia. PaulaLNapier ( talk) 22:06, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
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In the section on Twain's death, there is a claim that he died one day after Halley's Comet's closest approach to earth. While he did die one day after the Comet's perihelion in 1910, and possibly its closest approach in that year, Halley's Comet's closest approach to Earth was in 837, when it passed approximately 3 miles from the Earth. I worry that this language is ambiguous in the first section (less so when mentioned later in the article), and I suggest a change in the first section to "Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well, dying the day after the comet's 1910 perihelion." Here is the Nasa.gov text on the Comet's closest approach: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/1p-halley/in-depth/#:~:text=The%20comet's%20closest%20approach%20to,of%20Venus%20at%20greatest%20brilliance. This is a very fun fact about Mark Twain! Erinshapland ( talk) 14:31, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Mentioned in: User:Michaelbusch #Objection 5: insert flawed statistical argument. The user (Michaelbusch) is retired from wp.
Ping welcome, Steue ( talk) 07:45, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Apologies for not having a source for this, but an educator with the library support organization Ohio Library Council once told his audience (including this writer) that he came into the profession after failing as a school teacher, and that based on this experience he was mindful of a version by Mark Twain, which he quoted as "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again - and then give up: don't be a damn fool about it." 2603:6010:4E42:500:5D2D:8B07:BCAB:7290 ( talk) 03:53, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
his salary shouldn't be one hundred and fifty, it should be one hundred fifty no and Bubs008 ( talk) 13:49, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
In the section, Early Life, the Wikipedia article on Mark Twain states, "His parents met when his father moved to Missouri. They were married in 1823." Although, they were married in 1823, Mark Twian's father, John Marshall Clemens and his mother Jane Lampton met in Kentucky where they both lived and were married in Kentucky on May 6, 1823. This edit is from "Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" (The Official Biography of Mark Twain), written by Albert Bigelow Paine. ShyeTK ( talk) 03:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
@ Clarityfiend Referring to the recent removal of the category pertaining to comedian. I wondered what your thoughts were on these sources. [1] [2]
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The grammar is a little wrong with the birthday of Mark Twain can it be okay if I change it so people can understand this article better? MochaCat12 ( talk) 03:14, 20 March 2024 (UTC)