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2. A Literary Nightmare - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Mark Twain bibliography - Wikipedia

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   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).

4. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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   All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. [119] Near the completion of Huckleberry Finn, Twain wrote Life on the Mississippi, which is said to have heavily influenced the novel. [72] The travel work recounts Twain's memories and new experiences after a 22-year absence from the Mississippi River.

5. How to Tell a Story and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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   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).

6. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Bill Murray explains why 'Huckleberry Finn' critics are wrong ...

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   One author whose words you won't hear in the film version of New Worlds is Mark Twain.Both the album and the live show feature a 15-minute segment in which Murray reads aloud from Twain's seminal ...

8. Old Times on the Mississippi - Wikipedia

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   Old Times on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. A serialized version of the work first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine published in 1875. It was later incorporated into his 1883 work, Life on the Mississippi.

9. ‘This Is Not A Love Story’ by Huffington Post

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   A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States