Mark Twain is the famous pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He is one of the most beloved figures in the history of American literature, and was a journalist, novelist, humorist, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel ."
Poems are below...
Articles about Mark Twain or articles that mention Mark Twain.
Here are a few random quotes by Mark Twain.
See also: All Mark Twain Quotes
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like... Go to Quote / Comment
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. Go to Quote / Comment
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Go to Quote / Comment
I never let schooling interfere with my education. Go to Quote / Comment
"God created a monkey because He was disappointed in man." Go to Quote / Comment