mark twain
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Twain in Pictures
Mark Twain’s humor is post-age. His children’s book, Advice to Little Girls was published in 1865 and was a comedic gem amongst the moralizing, heavy-on-the-role-models books of the genre. His story is recast as a slideshow of illustrations by the…
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Literary Mail
Mark Twain found another way to be immortal—and it doesn’t involve the posthumous release of a book. It’s actually one of the coolest collaborations between a US government agency and the literary arts: the Mark Twain stamp, which is the…
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A Clouded Thing
Jaimy Gordon’s National Book Award-winning novel conveys the hard-knock world of horseracing in a style reminiscent of Walker Percy and Mark Twain.
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Mark Twain on Mark Twain
“The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not…
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Morning Coffee
Is it just me or is today really dorky? We here at the Rumpus aren’t always so keen on the idea of steampunk, we do however like these lamps a lot. Mark Twain is PISSED! Perhaps you need to buy…