Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (født 30. november 1835 i Florida i Missouri i USA, død 21. april 1910 i Redding i Connecticut), bedre kjent under sitt litterære psevdonym Mark Twain, var en berømt og populær amerikansk humorist, forfatter, journalist og foreleser. Han er mest kjent for sine romaner om Huckleberry Finn og Tom Sawyer, og forfatteren William Faulkner betegnet i sin tid Twain som «den amerikanske litteraturens far». Foruten romaner skrev han også reiseskildringer og samfunnskritiske reportasjer om korrupsjon og klasseskiller i samtiden.
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[rediger] Bibliografi
- (1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)
- (1869) Innocents Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1872) Roughing It (non-fiction)
- (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiction)
- (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)
- (1880) A Tramp Abroad (non-fiction travel)
- (1880) 1601: Samtale, Som det var med den sosiale brannsiden, I tiden til Tudorene (fiction)
- (1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiction)
- (1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
- (1884) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)
- (1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiction)
- (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)
- (1894) The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (fiction)
- (1896) Tom Sawyer Detective (fiction)
- (1897) Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)
- (1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)
- (1905) King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire)
- (1905) The War Prayer (fiction)
- (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiction)
- (1906) What Is Man? (essay)
- (1907) A Horse's Tale (fiction)
- (1909) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction)
- (1909) Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)
- (1916) The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, published posthumously)
[rediger] Trivia
Twain ble født 30. november 1835; bare to uker etter at Halleys komet passerte Solen. I sin biografi skriver Twain: «I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.»- Twain døde 21. april 1910, dagen etter at Halleys komet passerte Solen neste gang[1][2]. Filmen The Adventures of Mark Twain fra 1985 er inspirert av dette. Hans dødsdag blir ansett som et mysterium.
[rediger] Referanser
- ^ Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:. twianquotes.com. Besøkt 15. mars 2007.
- ^ The New York Times: 1867-1970. twianquotes.com. Besøkt 15. mars 2007.
[rediger] Eksterne lenker
- Ever the Twain Shall Meet, A guide to Mark Twain on the Web
- Web directory of Mark Twain e-texts from DMOZ
- The Works of Mark Twain, Chapter-indexed, searchable versions of Twain's works.
- Project Gutenberg, where more than 60 works of Twain's are freely available.
- Complete Works of Mark Twain
- Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: Thunder and Lightning (PDF)
- Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies
- Full text of the biography Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
- Mark Twain and Henry Huttleston Rogers in Virginia excerpts from their trips together to the 1907 Jamestown Exposition and the 1909 Dedication of the Virginian Railway
- Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909
- Biography and quotes of Mark Twain
- 13 Works from Mark Twain
- Mark Twain mobile ebooks
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