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[201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Mark Twain — The Mysterious Stranger Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End of the World , The Golden Volcano , The Thompson Travel Agency , The Chase of the Golden Meteor , The Danube Pilot , The Survivors of the "Jonathan" , The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz , " The Eternal Adam ", The Barsac Mission , Paris in the Twentieth Century ...
The first sound version of Mark Twain's story in which a radio salesman (Will Rogers) is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. 1933 Turn Back the Clock: Edgar Selwyn: Only a single time loop is needed for Joe to wish that he could relive his life and marry the wealthy woman.
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: St. Petersburg is Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's hometown in Missouri. It is a fictional town, but it is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. Styles St. Mary, Essex Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Sandbourne, Upper Wessex Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
— Mark Twain, American novelist (21 April 1910), to his daughter Clara "Yes, I have heard of it. I am very glad." [36] — Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom (6 May 1910), on being told by his son that one of his horses had won a race "Pull up the shades; I don't want to go home in the dark." [37]: 22 [note 3]
Multiple film adaptations of Mark Twain's novel have been made. Some of these include: The Prince and the Pauper (1909), a two-reel short, with Cecil Spooner as Edward, featuring rare film footage of Mark Twain, shot by Thomas Edison at Twain's Connecticut home. The Prince and the Pauper (1915), the lost silent film with Marguerite Clark as Edward