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"A Literary Nightmare" is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876. The story is about Twain's encounter with an earworm , or virus-like jingle , and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing the jingle from his mind.
Pages in category "Short stories by Mark Twain" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... A Literary Nightmare; Luck (short story) M.
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).
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
James Fenimore Cooper in an 1822 portrait. Everett Emerson (in Mark Twain: A Literary Life) wrote that the essay is "possibly the author's funniest". [6] Joseph Andriano, in The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, argued that Twain "Imposed the standards of Realism on Romance" and that this incongruity is a major source of the humor in the essay.
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) [1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following: How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895). In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894). Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ...
Mark Twain (1835–1910, US) – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England) Narushima Ryūhoku (成島柳北, 1837–1884, Japan) Thomas Nast (1840–1902, US) Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914, US) – The Devil's Dictionary
The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements from both the short story and Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper The 1994 comedy A Million to Juan starring Paul Rodriguez The 2011 BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Million Pound Bank Note , starred Trevor White as Henry Adams