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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.
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).
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).
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.
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed is one of Mark Twain's sketches (1885), a short, highly fictionalized memoir of his two-week stint in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. [1] It takes place in Marion County, Missouri , and is about a group of inexperienced militiamen, the Marion Rangers, who end up killing a stranger in panic.
There are two movies within Searchlight Pictures’ “Nightmare Alley.” One makes eight-time nominee Bradley Cooper a long overdue Oscar winner. The other would add another statue to the shelf ...
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.
SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” is physically stunning, which the director says ...