Mark Twain and His Classics
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Re: Mark Twain and His Classics
But I also really enjoy The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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That is very true of Twain. I remember something he wrote one time about an inaccurate revolver he's owned: that once it fired, no person or thing in the world would be safe except those standing directly in front of it.Sine_Ni_Ceallach wrote:I asked for, and subsequently received a copy of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court last Christmas. I really loved it, some of the passages had me quite literally laughing out loud, which is rare for me. In the words of G.K. Chesterton: "In all those excruciating tales of [Twain's], which in our youth made us ill with laughing, the idea always consisted in carrying some small fact or notion to more and more frantic lengths of deduction. If a man's hat was as high as a house Mark Twain would think of some way of calling it twenty times higher than a house. If his hat was smashed as flat as a pancake, Mark Twain would invent some startling and happy metaphor to prove that it was smashed twenty times flatter than a pancake." I would highly recommend it to anyone as a fantastic piece of 19th century American literature.
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The last Twain work I read was The Innocents Abroad, a nonfiction work featuring the author's experiences on an excursion to Europe and the Holy Land. I think Twain was being paid to write about the trip by a newspaper that was publishing his remarks in installments.
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Anyway, I preffer the Huckleberries Flynt series
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I have recommended them to all the younger members of my family, as the years have pasted, and have been rewarded with many, if not most, of our youth becoming readers and several writers.
All the Mark Twain's books and Sayings should be 'must reads' in every school in our country.
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It's available in a book by that name and also in a larger collection called The Bible According to Mark Twain, which also contains other funny and interesting stories.
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